JAKARTA: The Indonesia National Narcotics Agency (BNN) said it has seized 16 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, locally known as shabu-shabu, hidden on baby strollers in Muara Baru, North Jakarta.
“A team of BNN officers found the drug 16.043.2 grams after a thorough check of the strollers in a pickup truck to be transported somewhere,” deputy head of the BNN public relation Slamet Pribadi said here the other day.
In an operation early last week, BNN officers spotted the suspicious car in Muara Baru at around 20:30 p.m. WIB. The car entered into a warehouse and after a few hours reappeared loaded with strollers.
The team intercepted the car immediately to check the cargo containing 17 baby strollers.
“The officers found methamphetamine in 15 of the 17 strollers,” Slamet said.
BNN arrested a woman courier from Ngedukelu sub-district, Bajawa district, East Nusa Tenggara, identified only as F.
F, who lived in Pakusari, Jember district, East Java, told her investigators that she was asked by someone to come to Jakarta to pick up a package of baby strollers from China.
She said she was paid Rp20 million for the job.
“Rp10 million for the operational cost, and the other Rp10 million for her pay as a courier,” Slamet said.
F admitted that she had been working as drug courier for six months, saying she had done similar job once in Medan, North Sumatra and twice in Yogyakarta.
BNN also arrested the pickup driver identified only as B and Fs companion identified as YN.
If found guilty F is facing a death sentence or life imprisonment.
