TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
For better or worse: Drug dealer flees arrest, allegedly used wives to transport narcotics
The suspect's wives confessed they had been forced to transport illegal drugs.
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
Meranti Islands Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Eko Wimpiyanto Hardjito (center) speaks during a press briefing on the arrest of four suspects for alleged cocaine distribution in Meranti Islands regency, Riau, on Nov. 6. (Handout/Meranti Islands Police via kompas.com)
A suspected drug dealer in Meranti Islands, Riau, fled authorities upon arrest, purportedly escaping to a local forest on Nov. 3.
The man, identified only as MW, allegedly involved four women, including his second and fourth wives MM and IT, respectively, in distributing the cocaine.
Following MW’s escape, the police arrested MM, IT, his younger sibling RM and neighbor NP during a raid on Tuesday.
“The perpetrator turned his two wives into cocaine distributors,” Meranti Islands Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Eko Wimpiyanto Hardjito said on Friday as quoted by kompas.com.
Read also: Suspected drug dealer shot dead by North Sumatra Police following physical assault
The police seized 12.69 grams of cocaine in six separate packets, as well as an array of chemical equipment allegedly used to produce the drugs as evidence.
Eko said MW’s wives had confessed to being coerced into dealing narcotics.
“It is a shame that these women were recruited to transport the narcotics,” he went on to say. (rfa)
