Samarinda District Court Judge Sentenced 2 Drug Convicts 6-7 Years In Prison

ARSIP - Samarinda District Court Office. ANTARA/Fandi

The Panel of Judges at the Samarinda District Court (PN) sentenced the defendants Eko Setia Permadi and Arifrianto to six and seven years in prison for drug abuse cases. "In case Number 153/Pid.Sus/2023/PN Smr and Number 154/Pid.Sus/2023/PN Smr, we handed down a verdict on two convicts of drug cases," said Chairman of the Samarinda District Court Judge Ary Wahyu in Samarinda, Antara, Wednesday, May 3. In the verdict, Ary stated that the defendants Eko and Arifrianto had been legally and convincingly proven guilty of committing a criminal act of drug abuse. The case is an attempt or conspiracy of evil without rights or against the law, offering to sell, sell, buy, accept, become an intermediary in buying and selling, handing over, first-class (I) narcotics are not plants weighing five grams. He said that as regulated and threatened with crime in Article 114 paragraph 2 Junto Article 132 paragraph 2 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning narcotics as stated in the first indictment of the public prosecutor. "“Imposing a prison sentence of six years reduced as long as the defendant Eko is in custody, and a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to two months in prison, ordering the defendant to remain detained,” said Ary Wahyu. He conveyed that for the defendant Arifrianto, the Panel of Judges sentenced him to seven years as well as a fine of Rp. 1 billion, a subsidiary of two months. The judge continued to say that the evidence was in the form of a package of methamphetamine weighing 7.84 grams, a small white pipe bar, a yellow Vivo brand android phone, a black Nokia cellphone. Then, another piece of evidence in the form of a black Oppo brand android phone and a white Samsung S10 brand of mobile phones, all of which were confiscated for destruction. "To the two defendants, the Panel of Judges charged them to pay a court fee of Rp. 5,000 each," said Ary. At the previous trial, the two defendants were charged by the Public Prosecutor (JPU) Fajarudin ST Salampessy from the Samarinda District Attorney for nine years and six months in prison reduced while the defendant was in detention and a fine of Rp. 1 billion, subsidiary to three months in prison. As stated by the Public Prosecutor in his indictment, this case began when Eko and Arifrianto committed criminal acts of probation or conspiracy without anything or against the law. They sold, bought, accepted, became intermediaries in buying and selling, handed over, first class narcotics (I) type methamphetamine, on Jalan Padat Karya, Bayur Village, North Samarinda District, Samarinda City, in Samarinda Class II A Narcotics Prison, on Monday (13/11/2022) around 17.00 WITA.