Jakarta, Hilton News —
Police dismantled a PCC (Paracetamol, Cafein, Carisoprodol) drug factory in the Citeureup area, Bogor Regency. This factory has been operating for 6 months.
“The activity based on the explanation has been going on for approximately six months. But still deepening, this possibility has been a long time, “said Metro Jaya Regional Police Director Kombes Hengki to reporters, Tuesday (21/5).
In this case, the police also arrested one suspect with the initials MH. He is known to be an employee at the factory who served as a driver to pick up raw materials and deliver PCC tablets.
Hengki said that during six months of operation, the drug factory was able to produce tens of thousands of PCC pills.
“If we look at the existing printing presses, two printing machines are both Hexymer and PCC. It can be tens of thousands every day, so if one day the indication can print ten thousand or he tens of thousands if one month,” he said.
Hengki revealed that during operation, the factory was deliberately camouflaged as a workshop. This is done to avoid the suspicion of local residents.
“Including the results of our inspection to the head of RT who was originally the reason when these machines came in was to set up a workshop,” he said.
In fact, the factory also installed silencers. The goal, so that when the production machine is turned on, it is not heard by neighbors.
“The room was installed soundproofed so that, when this machine was working, it was not heard from neighbors around the crime scene,” said Hengki.
In this case, police also seized millions of drug tablets. Namely, PCC as many as 1,215,000 tablets to Hexymer as many as 1,024,000 tablets.
For his actions, MH suspects were charged with Article 114 paragraph (2) subsidiary to Article 112 paragraph (2) of Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics and Article 435 Juncto Article 138 paragraph (2) of Law Number 17 of 2023 concerning Health with a maximum penalty of life or 20 years in prison.
Police are still pursuing the whereabouts of another suspect with the initials S. He acted as the boss and ordered the MH suspect to deliver the illicit goods.
“There is already one set list of people looking for (DPO) whose initials are S. Already DPO, we will chase it to the ant hole even if we will still look for it,” Hengki said.
Previously, police raided a home factory aka home industry drugs type PCC or Paracetamol, Cafein, Carisoprodol in the Citeureup area, Bogor, West Java on Wednesday (15/5) night at around 23.30 WIB.
Head of Sub-Directorate III of the Metro Jaya Regional Police AKBP Malvino E Yustica explained that the raid was carried out after investigators found information related to the plan to buy and sell PCC drugs that would be delivered to a shophouse in the Cakung area, East Jakarta.
“There is information from the public that there is someone who will deliver PCC type narcotics to a shophouse in Cakung, East Jakarta,” he said in a written statement, Saturday (18/5).
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