The National Police announced Wednesday that they arrested on Sunday a drug ring that had been operating out of Denpasar, Bali. The group involved an inmate housed at Kerobokan Prison, identified as DN, who is alleged to have acted as a supplier.
Bali Police narcotics division director Sr. Comr. Raden Purwadi said the police had arrested three of DN’s accomplices, namely businessman I Made Putu, alias Putu Leon, 44, alleged to be the group’s leader; I Gede Putu Astawa, alias Putu Krecek, 39, an alleged courier; and Cahyadi, alias Bocah, 38, alleged to have distributed the contraband to Bali night clubs.
“Based on demand from Putu Leon, DN, using his cellphone, ordered crystal methamphetamine, smuggled from Guangzhou in China, and ecstasy from Malaysia. The drugs were then strapped around a courier’s waist and taken past the screening system at the Ngurah Rai International Airport,” Purwadi told reporters at the National Police narcotics division office in Cawang, East Jakarta.
The police confiscated 154 packages containing crystal meth, 63 ecstasy pills, a bong, cash amounting to Rp 823 million (US$61,700), five fake Rp 100,000 notes, an SUV and a motorbike, 18 mobile phones, a sales notebook, a samurai sword, a knife and an air gun. The confiscated goods are estimated to be worth Rp 2.3 billion.
National scene: Drug ring nabbed in Bali | The Jakarta Post
