Bali Police is dispelling any rumors that a Malaysian national was arrested at Ngurah Rai International Airport with a bomb.
Malaysian man Tie Kok King, 49, was actually arrested for drugs—a whopping 25 grams of meth and some marijuana—Bali Police has confirmed to local media.
“The suspect tried to smuggle methamphetamine in coffee sachets,” head of the public information division, Adj. Sr. Comr. Sri Harmiti said on Monday, as quoted by Tribun Bali.
King was arrested after landing from a Malaysia Airlines flight, after Customs saw something suspicious in the x-ray.
The Malaysian was apparently tracked back to where he was staying, Amaris Hotel in Teuku Umar, Denpasar and that’s where he was ultimately arrested along with a female friend, identified as LHM.
The female friend has since reportedly been determined as “just a friend” uninvolved in any drug smuggling, and thus released from custody.
“From the confession, the meth was to be used alone here (in Bali). He would have vacationed for two months,” Harmiti explained.
But because of the large volume of meth, police suspect the drugs were meant for distribution, not merely for personal use—for amounts above five grams, suspects are filed into the narcotics trafficking category.
