BNN Arrests Students And Residents Of Drug Party At USU, 3 People Become Suspects

North Sumatra BNN releases about raids on USU/Satria H-VOI

MEDAN - North Sumatra Province National Narcotics Agency (BNN) has arrested several students and the public who indulged in marijuana-type drugs at the University of North Sumatra (USU) Campus at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences (FIB).

The head of the North Sumatra BNN, Brigadier General Toga Panjaitan, said in his presentation that the raids began with community reports. In the raid, BNN arrested 47 people from 2 different locations.

"Saturday night, Sunday, October 9, at 23:00 we conducted a raid, to be exact at USU's FIB. We will expand it to Cemara Street at the end of number 80, Medan Kota Sub-district", said Brigadier General Toga, Monday, October 11.

Of the 47 people who were arrested, BNN immediately conducted a urine test. As a result, 31 people tested positive for marijuana.

"Meanwhile 16 people were negative and we didn't bring them to the office. Of the 31 people, we recorded 20 students from USU, consisting of 14 people who are still studying, 6 alumni and 11 ordinary people", he explained.

From the results of the raid, BNN secured 118 small packages of ready-to-use marijuana weighing 1.8 grams. The total evidence seized was 508.6 grams of marijuana.

"A total of 508.6 grams, we conducted an interrogation, 265 grams belonged to the suspect JHS, he is an alumnus of the USU FIB. According to JHS, he got the item from a woman with the initials DM. We gave chase, Sunday morning, we arrested DM with FAY's male friend", said Brigadier General Toga.

"While the evidence weighing 243.6 grams has not been recognized. The list of names of 31 suspects, 20 USU FIB students, 10 members of the public, and students from other universities, are from Unimed", he continued.

In this case, Brigadier General Toga said the North Sumatra BNN had named 3 suspects, namely JHS, DM, and FAY. Meanwhile, for students, the North Sumatran National Narcotics Agency will conduct an assessment.

"For these 30 students while we are interrogating them, they are victims of abuse, they use them. We carry out medical assessments, treat them, rehabilitate them. They are the nation's generation, we allow them to recover, but based on the results of the assessment, we will rehabilitate them until they recover and return to normal life and continue his studies", he said.

The three suspects were charged with Article 114 paragraph (1), Article 111 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 132 Article (1) of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics.