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he Gorontalo Provincial Narcotics Agency (BNP) revealed that a drug ring operating in the province was actually managed by an inmate serving time at the Palu Penitentiary in Central Sulawesi.

Gorontalo BNP chief of drugs eradication, Adj. Sr. Comr. Mahsyar Torada said Friday that the revelation was acquired from the confessions of three drug dealers who were arrested separately in Gorontalo city.

The three suspects, K, S, and E, were arrested in an operation launched on Sunday. They were caught red-handed by under-cover officers at the Pulubala residential area in Kota Tengah district, Gorontalo city.

They had implicated each other as syndicate members. K is a private employee while S and E are drugs couriers. All of them are new faces in the drug dealing business. BNP officers confiscated seven kilograms of shabu-shabu or crystal methamphetamine from the three suspects.

Officers soon learned from the three that the drugs were distributed by E, an inmate at Palu Penitentiary, who had before resided in Gorontalo.