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Suspected drug trafficker shot dead in West Jakarta
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he West Jakarta Police shot dead on Friday an alleged drug dealer, AF, who had 1,400 ecstasy pills, 2,000 nimetazepam “happy five” pills and 200 grams of crystal methamphetamine in his house. He was shot while resisting arrest.
Previously, the police arrested three men—identified only as KB, EL and MT—o n Thursday for the possession of a package of crystal meth and five ecstasy pills. The men claimed they had purchased the drugs from AF.
“AF was arrested in his house on Jl. Tanah Sereal in Tambora, West Jakarta,” West Jakarta Police chief Sr. Comr. Roycke Langie said as quoted by wartakota.tribunnews.com, adding that AF had previously been imprisoned for four years and two months at Salemba Penitentiary in Jakarta on drug charges.
From information made available by AF, he got drugs in North Jakarta from a man, AS, who was on the police’s most wanted list. (vny)
