Police seize 1.5 tonnes of marijuana from an Aceh truck on the Tangerang highway
Indonesia's National Police intercepted a truck on the Tangerang–Banten highway carrying 1.5 tonnes of marijuana from Aceh and arrested the driver. The load was bound for a Bogor warehouse raided on 16 December and buyers in three West Java towns.
Indonesia’s National Police said they intercepted a truck on the Tangerang–Banten highway carrying 1.5 tonnes of marijuana and arrested its driver, 31-year-old YS of Bogor.[1]The drugs were packed in 39 sacks hidden among 120 sacks of staple foods used as cover, and police said the load had come from Aceh.[1]
The National Police narcotics director, Brig. Gen. Anjan Pramuka Putera, said the marijuana was bound for a warehouse in Bogor, which had been raided on 16 December, and then for buyers in Bandung, Purwakarta and Garut in West Java.[1]He put the haul’s value at Rp 6 billion (US$441,000) and claimed the seizure had saved 40,000 Indonesians from ruin.[1]
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Packages of seized marijuana displayed at the National Police press conference in Jakarta on 28 December 2015Photo details
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