Cianjur Police Arrest Four Perpetrators Of Illegal Drug Makers

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Cianjur Resort Police (Polres), West Java, arrested four perpetrators of making illegal drugs from a villa in the Puncak area that was transformed into a home factory, from the hands of the perpetrators around 300 thousand pills of various types of illegal drugs, Friday 12 July.

Cianjur Police Chief AKBP Aszhari Kurniawan in Cianjur Saturday said the discovery of the home factory that was processing the illegal drugs began with reports from residents who were suspicious of activities in the house.

"We distributed officers to conduct an investigation into the location of the villa in the Puncak area, Cipanas District, and during a search, hundreds of thousands of pills were found that were recycled, as well as four people were arrested from inside the house," he said, as reported by Antara.

The four people who were arrested, namely the initials F (33), AF (26), Fa (32), SM (51), all of whom are residents outside West Java, and have been running their businesses since the last two months with the production of more than one million pills of various brands of illegal drugs.

The market for illegal drugs, which were added with doses, said Aszhari, was sold to a number of large regencies/cities in West Java and Central Java with monthly profits reaching hundreds of millions of rupiah.

According to him, the perpetrators were charged with Article 435 or Article 436 paragraph one and paragraph two of Law No. 17 of 2023 concerning health, with a maximum penalty of 12 years in prison or a maximum fine of IDR 5 billion.

Kasat Narkoba Polres Cianjur AKP Septian Pratama explained that apart from securing the four perpetrators, his party also secured evidence of illegal drugs of around 300 thousand pills of various types and brands with a market price of millions of rupiah per 1,000 pills.

"Hundreds of thousands of pills confiscated by us are the last production, it is estimated that over the past two months they have sold more than three million pills to various major cities/districts in West Java and Central Java," he said.

According to him, the perpetrators marketed the illegal drugs using social media by sending them through packages to trick the officers, so that they were impressed by the marketplace.

"So that it seems that the perpetrators legally use social media and delivery through the service bureau," he said.

However, this effort, he said, was finally uncovered after local residents became suspicious of the activities carried out inside the house which concurrently became a factory.

"We received a resident's report and immediately carried out an investigation," he said.