Husband And Wife In Full Jambi River Compactly Plant This Forbidden Plant, Have Been In Business For 5 Months

Illustration-BNN officers destroy marijuana fields (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Members of the Kerinci Police Narcotics Unit, Jambi, discovered a one hectare marijuana field located in Sungai Ning Village, Sungai Bungkal District, Sungai Penuh City.

Kerinci Police Chief AKBP Agung Wahyu Nugroho said that the information on the existence of the marijuana field was conveyed by the public on Wednesday, October 20 yesterday. The exact location is at KM 10 Puncak, Sungai Bungkal District, Sungai Penuh City.

After receiving this information, the Kerinci Police sent personnel to go directly to the location that was informed.

"Arriving at the location, initially there, police officers found or contained approximately 100 (one hundred) sticks of narcotics group 1 type of cannabis plant, and 1 (one) black plastic containing narcotics class 1 type of marijuana weighing 105 grams," he said. Agung when contacted in Jambi, Antara, Thursday, October 21.

This discovery was developed from the results at around 16.00 WIB, officers managed to secure one woman along with evidence of a pack of marijuana type narcotics that were sun-dried in the Ladang KM 10 Puncak cottage.

"At the time of the raid, one person managed to escape, only one woman was detained with the initials FY (40)," said Kerinci Police Chief, AKBP Agung Wahyu Nugroho.

The suspect, FY, appears to be the wife of the runaway perpetrator. The husband is suspected of being the owner of the one hectare marijuana field.

The police chief continued, after the arrest of the perpetrators, officers also checked the conditions around the land and found many marijuana plants ready to harvest with a height of about two meters.

The travel time to the location of the case is quite steep because it is in a sloping position on a cliff. With rainy conditions and slippery roads, the officers persisted until they finally found a marijuana field.

From the suspect's confession, the cannabis cultivation business has been carried out for 5 months. The Kerinci Police are currently developing the case again to dismantle the cannabis-type drug trafficking syndicate planted in Sungai Penuh City and Kerinci Regency.