JAKARTA: The police at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in cooperation with aviation security at the airport’s Terminal 1 arrested two people (husband and wife) for possession of more than 1 kilogram of sabu-sabu when their Lion Air flight from Medan to Balikpapan made a transit at the airport.
Deputy chief of the airport’s narcotics unit Adj. Comr. Subekti said MBR and his wife were arrested after 1.03 kg of sabu-sabu was found in their bag. “We confiscated 10 packs containing 1.03 kg of sabu-sabu from the suspects,” Subekti said.
He added that the police suspected the pair was part of a nationwide drug syndicate.
Subekti said that MBR had claimed that the drugs were not his and that he had received the drugs from someone in Medan on the instructions of a friend, identified as ABG, in Balikpapan, who had promised him a good job in a mining company in the city.
“We are still hunting down ABG in Balikpapan and the person who gave the illegal drugs to the suspects in Medan,” Subekti said.
Airport internal security manager Waluyo said the couple was arrested after internal security staff detected the drugs during a security examination. The suspects then gave information to the airport police.
