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Drugs seized in Kerobokan prison raid
Hundreds of ecstasy pills and 15 small packages of crystal methamphetamine or shabu-shabu have been seized during a raid at Kerobokan Penitentiary in Bali.
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After the raid -- Packages of crystal methamphetamine or shabu-shabu found in a raid at Bali's Kerobokan prison on Thursday are shown to journalists. (thejakartapost.com/Ni Komang Erviani)
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undreds of ecstasy pills and 15 small packages of crystal methamphetamine or shabu-shabu have been seized during a raid at Kerobokan Penitentiary in Bali.
The raid, conducted by a joint security team comprising personnel from the Law and Human Rights Ministry, National Narcotics Agency (BNN), police and military, took place on Thursday morning. Two inmates were subsequently taken to the police station on suspicion of dealing drugs within the prison.
Bali Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Hery Wiyanto said the drugs had been found in cells inside the prison. He declined to give more details about the two inmates taken to the police station. "We will conduct further investigations to uncover the prison drug ring," Hery said.
In the raid, which started at 4 a.m. local time, the joint team searched all blocks in the prison. Apart from drugs, several glass pipes or "bongs", sharp weapons and a number of mobile phones were also confiscated in the raid. In a urine test, six inmates also tested positive for drugs.
Kerobokan prison warden Slamet Prihantara professed ignorance at how the narcotics had entered the prison, and called on the police to investigate further.
"If any prison guards are involved [in the drug ring], they will be fired," Slamet said.
He added that the prison authorities had recently conducted a string of raids to clean up the prison from drugs.
A shortage of prison guards was partly to blame for the prevalence of drugs, he went on. "We have only 12 prison guards to handle and monitor more than 1,100 inmates," Slamet revealed. (ebf)
