Drug suspect dies in police operation

Mon, 09/15/2008 10:08 AM  |  City

JAKARTA: A police officer shot an Ugandan national Saturday for allegedly resisting arrest for illegal drug possession.

In a Sunday press release, the head of the Jakarta Police narcotics directorate, Sr. Comr. Arman Depari, said Joseph Nsubuga, 39, was found with some 40 grams of heroin in his rented house in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta.

As the police were trying to get more information about his heroin supplier, also a foreign national, Nsubuga tried to snatch a detective's gun.

The police said they gave three warning shots before shooting him in the chest. Nsubuga died on the way to the Sukanto police hospital in Kramatjati, East Jakarta, Arman said.

Besides seven packages of heroin, the police also confiscated a digital scale from Nsubuga's house as evidence. -- JP

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