A Year Of Cooperating For Synthetic Tobacco Chips With A Profit Of IDR 20 Million/Moon, FF Was Finally Arrested By The Garut Police

The police showed evidence and suspects in drug cases during a press conference at the Garut Police Headquarters, West Java, Thursday (20/10/2022). (ANTARA/HO-Polres Garut)

The Garut Police Narcotics Investigation Unit revealed a place for artificial synthetic tobacco or tobacco to make users drunk. This synthetic tobacco designer was also caught in the house of the Cilawu area, Garut Regency, West Java. "Production was carried out at home, arrested when he was about to mix or mix synthetic tobacco materials," said Head of the Garut Police Narcotics Unit AKP Jimmy Sisite during a press conference on the disclosure of the case in Garut, Antara, Thursday, October 20. The police managed to uncover the place where synthetic tobacco was made based on public reports, then the results of surveillance carried out by members. During the disclosure operation, he said, he managed to arrest one person with the initials 24-year-old FF in Cilawu District along with evidence of tobacco and raw materials for white powder for a mixture of tobacco manufacturing. "White powder was confiscated which is one of the ingredients in the manufacture of synthetic tobacco, the goods were obtained online," he said. The suspect has been the target of the police. His actions were carried out alone and for almost a year by selling online. The suspect, he said, could make synthetic tobacco because he learned from people who had been arrested from the sale, from the proceeds, he could earn a turnover of IDR 20 million every month. "He made his own synthetic tobacco and it has been going on for a long time, almost a year," he said. As a result of his actions, the suspect languished in the detention cell of the Garut Police Headquarters to undergo further legal examination. The police charged the suspect with Articles 112 and 114 of the Narcotics Law with a penalty of 15 to 20 years or a death penalty.