Two men who apparently were having a go at the Denpasar drug trade were reportedly arrested by Denpasar police.
Identified in an Okezone report as Zul, 33, and Can, 30, the two were arrested separately, but as part of the same case.
Head of Denpasar Police’s narcotics investigation unit, Gede Ganefo, said the two men were targeted in an operation. Both were arrested on September 2.
“From the preliminary information we received, the man who was selling drugs was described as having long hair and a tribal tattoo on the right hand,” he said in Denpasar on Monday.
“The suspect (Zul) has already twice been in Kerobokan Prison since becoming a drug dealer. First, he was arrested in 2006 by Bali Police and sentenced to five years in prison. Then, in 2010, he was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison,” Ganefo explained.
Zul was arrested at his residence on Jl. Pulau Belitung, South Denpasar and had no idea he was under surveillance. The man apparently had a front business of selling nasi padang.
When he went into his kos, police raided his room a couple hours after he entered.
“The suspect could not escape since in his pocked he already had a package of heroin. In the room, we also found pieces of a bong,” Ganefo explained.
When interrogated, Zul reportedly confessed to running a drug business and gave up his “staff,” who was Can.
This led police to go after Can in his boarding house on Jl. Tukad Yeh Aya, South Denpasar. From Can’s room, police reportedly found the goods: 13 packs of meth weighing 81.40 grams and six packages of heroin weighing 37.36 grams.
Can is believed by police to be a new player in the drug trade and was purportedly filling an order, where he was promised Rp 3 million of the Rp 10 million that Zul said they could make.
Though Zul apparently gave up Can, he reportedly would not say the source of who supplied the drugs to him.
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