Eight arrested in Lampung with 2,973 kg of marijuana from Aceh
Lampung police arrested eight suspects, including two military personnel, as they loaded 2,973 kilograms of marijuana from Aceh onto a military truck in Tanggamus on 9 December 2001. Police valued the haul at Rp6 billion and said it was bound for Java. The two servicemen were handed to military police for investigation.
Lampung police arrested eight suspects as they tried to load marijuana onto a military truck in Sumber Agung Pekon Margomulya village, Tanggamus regency, on 9 December 2001.[1]The confiscated marijuana totalled 2,973 kilograms and was held at the Tanggamus police precinct.[1]Police valued the haul at Rp6 billion, about US$600,000.[1][2]
Who was held
Those arrested included two servicemen and a civilian staff member from the Indonesian military headquarters in Cilangkap, Jakarta, alongside a truck driver and other civilians from Tangerang, Jakarta, North Aceh and Tanggamus.[1]The two servicemen were to be handed to the military police for further investigation.[1][2]
The route
Police said the suspects tried to smuggle the marijuana from restive Aceh province to Java island by truck.[1][2]Lampung’s governor urged police to destroy most of the seized marijuana at once, keeping only samples for investigation, lest it be diverted.[1]Police in Jambi had also confiscated hundreds of kilograms of marijuana from Aceh and arrested dozens of suspects in the months before.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The sources do not say whether the six civilian suspects or the two servicemen were charged or tried.
The sources give the seizure village as Sumber Agung Pekon Margomulya in Tanggamus, so district-level coordinates for nearby Kota Agung are used.
Police said Lampung had seized ten tons of marijuana on the Aceh-to-Java route in the previous three months, an agency claim not separately verified here.
No photograph of the event with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
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