This Woman Desperately Smuggles 100 Psychotropic Points Into Banceuy Prison Bandung

Bandung Police Narcotics Unit when revealed a drug trafficking case in Bandung City, West Java, Tuesday (29/10/2024). (ANTARA/Rubby Jovan)

The Bandung Police Narcotics Investigation Unit (Satres) managed to thwart the smuggling of 100 psychotropic pills into the Banceuy correctional institution (Lapas), Bandung City. The female perpetrator with the initials DM.

Bandung Police Narcotics Head AKBP Agah Sonjaya said the disclosure began when an investigation carried out by officers at the entrance gate of the prison and found 100 pills of prohibited drugs carried by the suspect.

"We have stopped the suspect DM from smuggling 100 psychotropic items," said Agah in Bandung, as reported by Antara, Tuesday, October 29.

Atah revealed, according to the perpetrator's statement that the psychotropic smuggling was planned to be given to her husband who was languishing in the prison.

"As many as 100 psychotropic smuggling items will be sent to the husband who is serving his sentence at Banceuy Prison," he said.

He suspected that the drugs would be traded again in prisons with the modus operandi of the perpetrators storing the psychotropic drugs in his intimate parts.

"Because the delivery is quite a lot of 100 pills and based on the suspect's statement, the aim is to be circulated in prisons," he said.

For his actions, he said, the perpetrator was charged with Article 62 of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 5 of 1997 concerning Psychotropics.

"The threat of imprisonment is a maximum of 20 years or life imprisonment with a fine of at least Rp. 1 billion," he said.