Police in Medan raid ice cream store rumored to be hiding secret drug-and-sex-filled discotheque

Phoot: Polda Sumatera Utara / Facebook
Phoot: Polda Sumatera Utara / Facebook

You may have heard about secret prohibition-era speakeasy bars in America with false fronts (or the many modern day Jakarta bars with prohibition themed facades) but police in the North Sumatran capital of Medan are claiming that an ice cream parlor in their city was secretly acting as a front for an illicit nightclub (which are still often anachronistically referred to as discotheques or diskotek in Indonesian).

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A group of officers from the Medan Police’s criminal and drug investigation units raided a store called Ice Cream Garden in the MMTC shophouse complex on Jalan Selamat Ketaren Medan Estate. Police said the alleged discotheque was on the second floor of the shop while the first floor was just a regular ice cream store.

Medan Police head of criminal investigations Putu Yudha Prawira said that the raid was based on reports from the public.

“In addition, this place was feared to be a den of drugs and free sex for minors,” Putu said as quoted by Antara.

During the raid, he said, dozens of underage visitors were found. The raiding officers confiscated IDR2 million (US$135) in evidence, one laptop, one DJ “device”, seven speakers, a disco lamp and a stamp. The underaged guests were also reportedly forced to take urine tests.

Media reports have not mentioned if the police were charging the owners of the ice cream store or any of the underage visitors with any crimes, but police said that the owners were not licensed to have such an establishment and as such could get into legal trouble on that front.



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