2 Dealers 4.8 Kg Of Methamphetamine Arrested In Medan, 1 Still Student

Illustration of the arrest of the alleged perpetrator of drug abuse cases. (Between-Shutterstock)

JAKARTA - The police arrested two men suspected of drug dealers of methamphetamine weighing 4.8 kilograms (kg) on Mongonsidi Street, Medan City, North Sumatra (North Sumatra). "The North Sumatra Police Narcotics Directorate Team on Wednesday (14 August) revealed that narcotics trafficking was the target of operation and arrested two perpetrators," said Head of Public Relations of the North Sumatra Police, Kombes Pol Hadi Wahyudi, in Medan, Sunday, August 18, confiscated by Antara. In addition to confiscating evidence of 4.8 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, he continued, officers also arrested the two perpetrators on Jalan Mongonsidi, each with the initials SG (25), and his colleague FR (29).

His party revealed that the perpetrator with the initials SG was still a student, while FR was his colleague and both residents of Medan Polonia District, Medan City, North Sumatra. he explained that this arrest began with public information that the perpetrators of SG were said to often circulate methamphetamine in the Mongonsidi Street area. "Not only did they find evidence of 1 kilogram of crystal methamphetamine. there, the officers then carried out developments by searching the house of one of the perpetrators, on Jalan Starban, Medan Polonia," he said.

From the search, the North Sumatra Police's Narcotics Directorate team again found evidence in the form of methamphetamine-type drugs weighing 3.8 kilograms stored in a suitcase. "When examined, the two perpetrators admitted that they had methamphetamine evidence and wanted to be circulated in Medan," said Hadi, who had served as the Head of the Biak Numfor Police of the Papua Police. Furthermore, the two perpetrators together with evidence of crystal methamphetamine weighing 4.8 kilograms were brought to the North Sumatra Police Narcotics Directorate for further detention and legal proceedings. "For the actions of the two perpetrators, they were charged under Article 114 paragraph (2) Subs Article 112 paragraph (2) Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics Jo Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code," he said.