Police Nab Seven Drug Suspects

Bangkalan, E Java, April 22 (Antara) - Police in Bangkalan district, East Java, arrested seven people on charges of abusing drugs in a raid on Monday. "The arrest of the seven drug suspects is the result of cooperation between the Bangkalan police resort and the East Java provincial police," Bangkalan police resort chief Adj. Snr. Comr. Endar Priantoro said here on Monday. During the raid conducted from 00.00 - 02.00 p.m. local time, the police searched a number of houses in Tapel, Rabasan and Parseh villages in Socah sub-district, Bangkalan district, believed to have been used for drugs transaction, he said. The seven are identified as Moh Romli (40), Margelap (40), Robi (32), Sarif Maulana (53), Arik (32), Daus Prana (31), and Mansur (25), all of them Bangkalan residents. The police also confiscated 0.32 grams of crystal meth (shabu-shabu) from the suspects as evidence.