MEDAN - Mandailing Natal (Madina) Narcotics Satres personnel arrested a husband and wife couple (couple) FR and SS who were couriers for narcotics weighing 10 kilograms (kg), in Madina Regency, North Sumatra.
Head of Criminal Investigation Unit for Madina Police, AKP Manson Nainggolan, said the arrests of the two suspects were based on reports submitted by members of the public.
He said that the couple was arrested by police officers on Wednesday, July 14. At that time, the suspect was carrying illegal goods using a motorized tricycle from Huta Tinggi Village, East Panyabungan District, Madina Regency.
Furthermore, officers who carried out a raid on the Sumatra Cross Road (Jalinsum) saw the suspects and immediately arrested them.
"During the search, 10 kg of dried marijuana were seized from the suspect's hands, ready for distribution," he said, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, July 14.
Nainggolan told officers that the suspect admitted that the item belonged to a drug dealer and asked to be delivered to someone in the Pasir Pangarayan area, Riau.
The suspect was promised to be given a salary of Rp. 8 million, if he managed to deliver the goods to their destination.
The suspect became a drug courier for the first time and had just been laid off from a plantation worker.
"The two suspects violated Article 111 Junto Article 114 of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics, with a threat of 20 years in prison," said AKP Manson.
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