“Some 40 thousand hashish crops get cultivated on the plantation if one hectare of land is planted with eight thousand hashish seeds,” North Aceh Police Chief Adjunct Sen. Coms. Deden Heksaputera Sanusi remarked.
Talking in Lhokseumawe on Friday, he famous that the hashish plantation might be uncovered owing to the arrest of a drug trafficker, recognized as A, who tried to move 18 kilograms of dried marijuana on Sept 8.
This 32-year-old drug courier, who was apprehended in Sawang Village, Sawang Sub-district, instructed police investigators that he had obtained the marijuana bundle from a neighborhood resident, recognized as D, Sanusi said.
He remarked that D, aged 38, was a “backyard keeper” whereas including that the North Aceh Police’s anti-drug squad personnel then raided D’s home in Sawang Village on Oct 6.
D mentioned he had obtained the marijuana from the hashish plantation owned by A, Sanusi revealed.
Together with D, a number of law enforcement officials got here to an space the place the hashish plantation was cultivated. They then destroyed the plantation.
The 2 suspects are presently beneath police custody for additional investigation, he added.
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ANTARA reported earlier that Aceh stays in a state of emergency over drug trafficking, with transnational and inter-provincial drug rings nonetheless energetic within the province regardless of the continuing crackdown towards them.
Each police and the Nationwide Narcotics Company (BNN) have continued to clamp down on drug kingpins and their drug provide networks in Aceh over the previous few years.
Wanting on the bodily proof of drug crimes that native police and BNN officers have incessantly seized, hashish and crystal methamphetamine appear to be essentially the most generally trafficked medicine.
On April 6, 2021, a joint staff of personnel from the BNN, police, army, and native authorities destroyed 9 hectares of hashish plantations in North Aceh District.
Greater than 70 thousand hashish crops, reaching 30 to 250 centimeters in peak, have been burned to the bottom within the villages of Jurong and Sawang as a part of the operation.
The destroyed hashish crops weighed in at a complete of 35 tons. The joint staff members additionally burned and uprooted about 10 thousand hashish seeds.
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Translator: Khalis S, Rahmad Nasution
Editor: Yuni Arisandy Sinaga
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