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Mexican arrested in Bali airport for carrying bullets
Jose Fabian Ibarra Valdes, 32, was a passenger of JetStar Asia flight 3K-244 to Singapore. Aviation security found the bullets when his luggage passed through scanner in the international departure area.
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Mexican Jose Fabian Ibarra Valdes stands after being questioned at Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, on March 25. (JP/Courtesy of I Gusti Ngurah Rai airport public relation )
A Mexican man has been arrested at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Badung, Bali, on Monday for carrying bullets in his luggage.
"Yes, it is confirmed that the airport's aviation security personnel have arrested a passenger of an international flight who was carrying 10 bullets in his luggage," said the general manager of PT Angkasa Pura I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Haruman Sulaksono.
Haruman explained that the man, Jose Fabian Ibarra Valdes, 32, was a passenger of JetStar Asia flight 3K-244 to Singapore. Aviation security found the bullets when his luggage passed through scanner in the international departure area.
As the aviation security personnel found suspicious things in his luggage, a manual search was conducted and they found 10 bullets inside a plastic bag in his luggage.
"He said it was his father's suitcase and he didn't know that there were bullets inside," Haruman said.
Valdes could not show any documents or permit for carrying the bullets. Haruman explained that bullets are categorized as dangerous goods that need special permits to be carried on aircraft. It is regulated in Transportation Ministerial Regulation No. 8/2017 on national aviation security.
