One Kalibata Apartment Unit Becomes A Drug Warehouse

Press conference on drug disclosure case at Kalibata apartment (Rizky Adytia Pramana / VOI)

JAKARTA - The police have revealed a drug warehouse located in one of the Kalibata apartment units, Gaharu Tower, South Jakarta. More than twenty thousand ecstasy and happy five drug types are hidden there.

Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya, Kombes Yusri Yunus said, in this case, a man from Medan Tjioe In In alias Ing Ing was named a suspect.

From the results of the examination, during the COVID-19 epidemic period or to be precise three months ago, the suspect used the apartment unit as a drug warehouse.

Drug stocks in this warehouse are still large due to this pandemic period, the quantity of drugs being circulated has decreased. This is because entertainment venues that are the target market have not been allowed to operate.

"His (the suspect's) confession that the illicit goods had been kept in his apartment for a long time, with the COVID-19 pandemic situation, which he usually circulates in entertainment venues, it has been closed all this time, during this pandem so he did keep these items, but in the beginning it was. he (kept) it for a long time, "said Yusri in Jakarta, Wednesday, July 14.

Evidence of a drug warehouse case in the Kalibata apartment (Rizky Adytia Pramana / VOI)

In addition, Yusri also said, this disclosure began when there was information about the circulation in the Kalibata City apartment area, South Jakarta. However, after 2 weeks of investigation, the police finally managed to secure TII.

"Monday, July 6 managed to secure TII and was searched in the room and found 15,000 ecstasy narcotics and 5,500 H5 items," said Yusri.

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Based on the investigation, the suspect admitted that tens of thousands of drugs belonged to someone with the initials HMC who was fugitive. The suspect is only in charge of guarding this place with a wage of Rp10 million per month.

"He (the suspect) admitted that he was only told by someone whose initials were HMC, who is now a DPO. He also admitted that he was paid around Rp. 10 million per month, so long as he held this item it was almost 3 months, so he received around Rp. 30 million to store this item," concluded Yusri. .

So far, the police are still developing the case and hunting down HMC. Meanwhile, Tjioe In In alias Ing Ing was charged with Article 114 paragraph 2 subsidiary Article 112 paragraph 2 junto Article 132 paragraph 1 RI Law Number 35/2009 concerning narcotics with the threat of a sentence of up to five years in prison.

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