North Maluku police’s narcotics directorate, Ditresnarkoba Polda Malut, detained a 30-year-old man identified as FP alias Ical in Gosoma village, Tobelo district, North Halmahera regency.[1] Police said the case began with a tip about a suspicious parcel suspected of containing narcotics at one of the delivery services.[2] Officers of Unit 1, Subdit I of the directorate ran the investigation that identified the parcel and then detained Ical as he carried it.[2]

The parcel held one black plastic wrap of ganja, the Indonesian word for cannabis, weighing 55.26 grams gross, police said.[2] Ical told officers he had bought the cannabis through a Facebook account registered in Sukabumi, West Java, for Rp 700,000.[2] Police also seized a light-blue Oppo mobile phone suspected of being used in the transaction.[1]

The suspect and all the evidence were then taken to the North Maluku Ditresnarkoba office for examination and further legal process.[3] North Maluku police spokesman Kombes Pol Hadi Poerwanto said the force would also develop the investigation to uncover the supplier network and distribution route.[2]