The Bali division of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) destroyed over 9,000 ecstasy pills on Tuesday so the evidence would not get “misused.”
The drugs were incinerated so on one could ‘bag up a little evidence’ of their own and take the pills for their actual intended use.
But head of BNN Bali’s eradication division, Superintendent Ketut Artha, said that some of the pills, fewer than 100, were not destroyed for research purposes.
“Actually there were 9,675 pills, but for the sake of evidence and analysis, only 9,595 were destroyed,” Artha said in Denpasar on Tuesday.
The pills had been seized from a woman flying into Bali from Sumatra last month, on June 8. When airport officials first pulled the pills from her bag, the suspect, East Java woman, Stefani Anindia Hadi, tried to say she was carrying headache medication. However, after some prodding, Hadi reportedly confessed that they were indeed ecstasy.
Following Hadi’s arrest, BNN officers moved to track down the recipient of the smuggled drugs, eventually arresting Sukron Wardana, 27, at a hotel in Kuta.
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