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Deputy subdistrict head held as drug suspect

The city police on Wednesday named a deputy subdistrict head, Beni Hari Wibowo of Bidara Cina in Jatinegara, East Jakarta, a suspect in a drug case after he tested positive for crystal methamphetamine, locally known as shabu-shabu

The Jakarta Post
Thu, September 19, 2013

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Deputy subdistrict head held as drug suspect

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he city police on Wednesday named a deputy subdistrict head, Beni Hari Wibowo of Bidara Cina in Jatinegara, East Jakarta, a suspect in a drug case after he tested positive for crystal methamphetamine, locally known as shabu-shabu.

'€œWe have officially named Beni Hari Wibowo a suspect. He was tested for drugs and the result was positive for methamphetamine,'€ city police narcotics division deputy chief, Adj. Sr. Comr. Anwar Effendi, told reporters at the city police headquarters on Wednesday.

He said that the police arrested the suspect when he was consuming crystal methamphetamine with two security guards of the Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) cultural center in Central Jakarta at approximately 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 17 at the cultural center'€™s security guard office.

'€œWe have already named the two security guards, identified only as HS and AA, as suspects,'€ he said.

He said that the police confiscated 0.3 grams of crystal methamphetamine and a bong (a water pipe used to smoke the drug) at the time of his arrest.

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