"The police believed the drug had been smuggled by sea."
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The police have shot to death one of the three drug dealers from India and Malaysia during a recent arrest.

The narcotics director of the National Police Crime Investigation Department, Brigadier General Arman Depari, said here on Wednesday that AY (identified by his initials), a 50-year-old Indian national, had been shot dead for trying to attack the police after being arrested.

Arman stated the three drug dealers were caught on Tuesday night at an apartment building in Penjaringan, North Jakarta.

"From them the police confiscated 0.10 grams of methamphetamine," he said, identifying the two other arrested suspects as WK (a 29-year-old Indian national) and TCH (a 50-year-old Malaysian).

"The police believed the drug had been smuggled by sea," Arman told newsmen at City Park Apartment in Cengkareng, Banten.

He said the three suspects had been monitored since April. The three used to travel from one apartment to another in Jakarta by taxi. Based on the investigation, they were suspected to have stashed methamphetamine in several apartments.

"We have discovered 23 kilogrammes of meth at Room 1003, Tower G of the City Park Apartment, in Cengkareng, West Jakarta," Arman stated.

AY, who is called "big boss", pretended to not remember the locations of other apartments where the group had hidden the drugs.

He then tried to grab the gun of a police member at the apartment in Central Jakarta, which forced the police to shoot him down.

Arman is still on the case. "Their network still has yet to be found," he said.
(T.ANT/Uu.H-YH/INE/H-BSR/B003)

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