The Jakarta Police in cooperation with the West Kalimantan Police have foiled a try to smuggle drugs well worth billions of rupiah, allegedly by a Malaysia-based global drug syndicate
A joint team of police arrested three members of the alleged network on Jl. Ahmad Yani, Sei Limau Village in Mempawah, West Kalimantan on June 16.
The suspects are recognized best as EB, IT, and R.
The police have confiscated 10.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and 369 ecstasy tablets well worth over Rp 11 billion (US$778,761).
Sr. Adj. Comr. Dony Alexander from the Jakarta Police’s Narcotics Division said the police were hunting down the head of the syndicate who had reportedly ordered the smuggling to Indonesia via sea.
The Malaysian drug boss is now indexed within the police search.
“The [police] team will coordinate with the National Police’s Interpol to hunt the head of the drug syndicate in Malaysia, identified simplest as LIM,” Dony said on Friday as said with the aid of kompas.Com.
He added that the 3 suspects each had unique roles inside the smuggling try thru the waters of West Kalimantan.
“One turned into the captain of a wood ship who acquired the medication from any other ship within the center of the ocean, one becomes the operator who guarded the medicine, and one was the operator on land,” he stated.
Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Argo Yuwono said they have been paid Rp two hundred million among them for each cargo.
The suspects instructed police they had smuggled crystal meth from Malaysia to Indonesia six instances for the reason that 2018. They allegedly smuggled the medication via Pontianak to Java Island and Bali.
The capsules had been wrapped in aluminum foil and stored massive inner baggage.
The suspects can be charged underneath the 2009 Narcotics Law with a most sentence of existence imprisonment and quality of Rp 10 billion. (say)
“I misplaced the entirety while the police raided my house looking for prescribed drugs. My husband and little kids were domestic that night time. I become so ashamed I could not even study them. I was arrested, put in handcuffs, and locked up. My husband divorced me. My youngsters have been taken far from me. I knew I had hit backside.”
Sylvia* is a forty-four 12 months-vintage radiologist, former president of the PTA, and prescription drug addict.
An Invisible Epidemic
A wonderful deal has been written approximately alcoholism and drug addiction over the last a long time. However, statistics concerning prescription drug abuse and dependancy most effective seems to the floor while someone famous has trouble and needs remedy or dies.
Historically, prescription drug addiction has been the maximum underreported drug abuse trouble inside the state( National Institute of Drug Abuse). It is likewise the least understood. Addiction to and withdrawal from prescribed drugs can be greater risky than different substances due to the insidious nature of those capsules.
Two styles of the maximum typically abused capsules are opioids and benzodiazepines. Opioids are normally used to govern ache. Benzodiazepines, or tranquilizers, are used to manage tension. These pills are prescribed for quick-term use consisting of acute ache and anxiety; this is in response to a specific event. They may also be prescribed for persistent pain or generalized tension.
