inp.polri.go.id - Central Java. The Central Java Regional Police Drug Criminal Investigation have successfully thwarted drug smuggling in Semarang City. Evidence of 13.92 kilograms of meth and 10,300 have been seized by the police.

The Central Java Regional Police Drug Criminal Investigation Director, Senior Superintendent Muhammad Anwar Nasir says that in this case, his party has arrested two people and named them as the suspect. The two suspects are from Surabaya with the initials of RT (39) and MIA (31).

The case was first revealed when police acquired information about meth and ecstasy pills smuggling from Pontianak to Semarang via Dharma Kartika VII Ship.

The two suspects departed from Surabaya to Pontianak on Sunday, December 22nd, 2024 and arrived at Tanjung Emas Port at 21.00 pm.

Then, on Monday (12/24/2024), the two took a rest at Mahkota Hotel in Pontianak and a week later they received a brown box containing the drugs.

"Then the illegal goods were put into the back door wall as many as two packages and eight packages of crystal methamphetamine. Two packages of ecstasy were on the right side and one package of crystal methamphetamine under the dashboard of the steering wheel," he said, as reported by the halosemarang on Monday (1/6/2025).

After they hid the drugs, they then left the DWI KORA Pontianak port using a car. Then on Thursday (1/2/2025) at around 12:30 pm, the two suspects were immediately secured after getting off the Dharma Kartika Ship at the Tanjung Emas Port in Semarang.

"According to RT's statement, the crystal methamphetamine and ecstasy were obtained from an unknown person while in Pontianak on the orders of the DK (a fugitive). From RT's confession, the plan was for the narcotics to be taken to Surabaya to be handed over to someone on the orders of the DK," explained Anwar Nasir.

For their action, the suspect was charged with Article 114 Paragraph 2 Jo 132 Paragraph 1 and Article 132 Paragraph 1 Jo 112 Paragraph 2 of the Narcotics Law Number 35 of 2009.

"They faced a threat of death penalty, life imprisonment or imprisonment for a minimum of 6 years and a maximum of 20 years," he concluded.

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