inp.polri.go.id – Bogor. The Bogor Resort Police’s Drug Investigation Unit, West Java Regional Police, arrested three 19-year-old teenagers with the initials RAM, WR, and RAP who are home industry owners and synthetic tobacco makers, who fall into the category of drug abuse.
“Three suspects are a gang; RAM works as an apartment salesman, WR and RAP are screen printing employees. They have been running the synthetic tobacco home industry for two years,” said Bogor Resort Police Chief, Pol. During a press conference on drug case disclosure at the Police Headquarter, Cibinong, Bogor, Grand Commissioner Harun, Tuesday, October 5, 2021.
According to the police chief, the three teenagers were arrested in the Sariwangi area, Bandung, on September 23, 2021. The investigation results revealed that the three had been renting a house in Permata Arcamanik, Sukamiskin Village, Bandung, which was used as a processing site.
“They have distributed this product to several areas in West Java, such as Garut, Bandung, Cirebon, Cianjur, and Depok,” explained the Resort Police Chief.
The three suspects marketed synthetic tobacco products through Instagram social media. Similar to the six previous synthetic tobacco cases that the Bogor Resort Police revealed. The reason is that this disclosure is the result of the development of the exposure of the last case.
“The delivery is the same as the previous six cases, by sending, tucked in with orders for other goods. Then use aluminium foil, “explained the Chief of Resort Police.
The Bogor Resort Police confiscated various evidence from the three suspects, namely 14 packs of synthetic tobacco starter weighing 286 grams, a large plastic box containing 10 kilograms of tobacco, an artificial tobacco mixer machine, two weighing devices, and others.
“The total that we managed to secure was 23.74 kilograms of synthetic tobacco starter and 19 kilograms of gorilla tobacco,” concluded the Resort Police Chief.
