A brief visit has turned into an extended stay for three women visiting their friend at a Denpasar Police holding cell. They are now joining their buddy after meth was reportedly found hidden in their bag on Tuesday.
The three women, identified as 26-year-old RAN, 22-year-old R, and 22-year-old WA, were arrested, already in Denpasar Police custody, when police found 0.12 grams of meth inserted into a toothpaste pack.
They were caught at 11 am on Tuesday, during Denpasar Police’s visiting hours which run from 8 am until 3 pm. The women had been there to visit their friend IM AA, but didn’t even get to meet their friend before police searched their bags and found the “suspicious” pack of Pespondent toothpaste.
When officers cut open the toothpaste’s packaging, they found clear crystal methamphetamine packed inside.
“Like other visitors, they first reported to the officer on duty to take their waiting number. After giving their identity, they went to the detention center. When entering the holding cell, they checked their bags and were searched. That’s when police officers found methamphetamine inside some Pespondent toothpaste that they brought in their bag,” an anonymous police source told Tribun Bali.
Police then secured the women for questioning and herded them over to the Denpasar Police Narcotics Office.
Denpasar Police Narcotics Unit Chief Gede Ganefo separately confirmed the arrests of the three women to Tribun Bali, but he refused to give further details about the case since it’s still under development.
All he said is that the women claimed no knowledge of the meth they were carrying and said that someone else must have slipped it into their bag.
