Aceh Police Seize Huge Marijuana Haul
September 24, 2010
Armed police secure a truck load of confiscated marijuana unloaded at the police station in Banda Aceh in Aceh province on Thursday. Police raided a warehouse in nearby Kreung Raya district and seized the illegal contraband, however four suspects escaped. (AFP Photo/Chaideer Mahyuddin) Related articles
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397737Expect the price of marijuana to fall once the police start selling what they seized.
This is why Aceh is always interesting. We have Sharia law there of people working in the name of God, terrorists who also claim to be working in the name of
God, beautiful mosques to worship God, good people, bad people, normal people, not-so-normal people, and then drug cartels...
At least it's consistently full of varieties!!
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Banda Aceh. Police in Aceh have seized 3.5 tons of marijuana that was allegedly
destined for other provinces across the archipelago, authorities said.
The
seizure was made on Wednesday night in the village of Ladong in Aceh
Besar district. Police said the drugs were found in 71 sacks on board
two trucks, following a routine traffic stop to check for stolen
livestock.
“When officers started approaching one of the trucks,
there were three people trying to pull a tarp over the cargo,” said
Sr. Comr. Armensyah Thay, the chief of the Banda Aceh Police.
“They
fled when they saw the officers, and wouldn’t stop even after the
officers fired warning shots.” He added that all the suspects managed to
flee under the cover of darkness.
“At first the officers didn’t
know what was in the trucks,” Armensyah said.
“The officers weren’t
carrying flashlights, so they took the trucks to the Krueng Raya
subprecinct police station, and that was when they discovered the
marijuana.”
Despite not making any arrests, the police
identified two suspects — identified only as AB, a resident of
Lhokseumawe, and NZ, from Aceh Besar — after recovering ID cards, a
driver’s license and vehicle registration documents from the trucks.
Armensyah
said that AB, the owner of one of the trucks, was wanted for a previous
drug-smuggling offense.
“He’s a cross-province drug dealer,” he said,
adding that the seized cargo was destined for Palembang in South
Sumatra. From there, it probably was to be ferried over to Java, he
added.
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