1.3 tons of marijuana seized from minivan in West Jakarta; five held
West Jakarta police stopped a minivan on Jl. Kembangan Selatan on 6 December 2000 and seized 1.3 tons of dried marijuana packed in 77 boxes, arresting five suspected traffickers. The next day the city police destroyed 480 kilograms of marijuana seized in an earlier October operation.
West Jakarta police stopped a Kijang minivan on Jl. Kembangan Selatan at about 3 a.m. on 6 December 2000 during a joint anti-narcotics operation, after the driver sped up at the sight of officers.[1]After a chase, officers pulled the minivan over and found 77 boxes in the car, each containing a kilogram of dried marijuana.[1]
Police arrested the driver, Syahrial, and three passengers, Zaini, Yanto and Naim.[1]Under questioning at the scene, Zaini admitted the marijuana was about to be taken to Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta for distribution.[1]Police said five suspected traffickers were arrested in total, and three more suspects, Asri, Iis and Pepen, were still at large.[1][2]
Destruction the next day
Jakarta police destroyed more than 480 kilograms of dried marijuana the next day, which had been seized from locations across the capital during an anti-narcotics operation launched in October, along with small amounts of heroin and shabu-shabu.[2]City police chief Insp. Gen. Mulyono Sulaiman, who witnessed the destruction, said the Kembangan seizure and arrests could help uncover an important distribution network, doubting the men were ordinary dealers given the quantity.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The 7 December account names a driver and three passengers arrested at the scene while police put the total arrested at five; the fifth person is not identified.
Three more suspects, Asri, Iis and Pepen, were still at large, and no outcome for those arrested is reported in the opened sources.
No photograph of the seizure or the destruction with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
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