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Narcotics agency nabs three, seizes drugs stuffed into steel poles
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A police officer unloads steel pipes suspected to be stuffed with crystal meth following a raid on a warehouse in Penjaringan, North Jakarta on Tuesday afternoon. (Warta Kota/Junianto Hamonangan)
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he National Narcotics Agency on Tuesday arrested three suspects in a raid on a warehouse on Jl. Rawa Bebek in Penjaringan, North Jakarta, seizing nine steel pipes officers think contain crystal methamphetamine, locally known as shabu-shabu.
The agency’s drug eradication deputy chief Insp. Gen. Arman Depari said the police had cut open one steel pipe that looks like the ones used for electricity poles and found five kilograms of shabu-shabu stuffed into it.
“We have nine steel poles in total,” Arman said as quoted by Warta Kota on Tuesday afternoon.
Arman said the steel poles weighed between 120 and 190 kilograms. “We’ve just opened the 120-kilogram one,” he said, adding that the police needed at least 30 minutes to cut it open.
The police investigators are scheduled to continue to cutting open the eight remaining steel poles on Wednesday. (dmr)
