While Carrying Toddlers, This Veiled Woman Smuggles Methamphetamine To Kendari Prison For Her Husband

The woman with the initials YY and her toddler were brought to the Kendari Police. (Between/La Ode Muh Deden Saputra)

Kendari Police, Southeast Sulawesi, is handling the case of a woman caught smuggling methamphetamine at the Kendari Class II A Correctional Institution (Lapas). Kasat Resnarkoba Kendari Police AKP Hamka said information on smuggling methamphetamine was first conveyed by the Kendari Police Chief and then followed up by the Kendari Police Narcotics Unit team. "That in Kendari Class II A Prison it is suspected that there was a discovery or officers who made a picket thwarting the smuggling of methamphetamine," said Hamka in Kendari, Antara, Friday, August 4. After following up on this information, his party received from the Kendari Class II A Prison, one woman with the initials YY and three packages of suspected methamphetamine weighing 29.65 grams were secured. "We also checked that the evidence used a tool, and the result was that the evidence was suspected of being methamphetamine," said Hamka. The former Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Muna Police explained that for the follow-up to the smuggling of methamphetamine into Kendari Class II A Prison, his party would conduct further investigations and developments by examining witnesses and perpetrators. "We will conduct a more in-depth investigation, will examine the witnesses, then the person concerned (YY), even the husband concerned who is suspected of having illegal goods will be given to her husband at the Kendari Class II A Prison," he explained. He also mentioned that the perpetrator with the initials YY would be immediately led to the Kendari Police and immediately examined. "For now, because we have officially received from the Head of the Prison, we will take it to the Kendari Police for further investigation," he said. It is known that the Kendari Class II A prison guard officers managed to thwart the smuggling of 29.65 grams of methamphetamine by a woman carrying a toddler. Head of Class IIA Kendari Prison Tapianus Antonio Barus said the smuggling of suspected methamphetamine was carried out by YY by bringing a toddler who is his son. The smuggling sanction was first discovered by the Kendari Class II A prison female officer during an examination of a female visitor.

"Today our officers, the Kendari prison women's special search officers again managed to thwart the smuggling of suspected methamphetamine-type narcotics weighing 29.65 grams," said Tapianus Antonio.