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Here’s some advice from the Jakarta police: If you make a friend, especially a boyfriend or girlfriend, online, don’t give them your home address. Because they will probably use it to send you drugs.
“Friends or girlfriends who you meet through cyberspace can be smuggling drugs through your home address,” said the deputy head of the Police Drug Unit at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Assistant Commissioner Subekti, as quoted by Tempo today.
That’s what happened to a man from Bogor whom police are identifying as Z. Z unwittingly became a drug courier after he received a ceramic frog statue in the mail. The statue came from a woman from Hong Kong he had met online.
The frog statue was, of course, filled with 2.9 kilograms of methamphetamines.
Subekti said Z was arrested in West Jakarta on February 13. Z said the package came from a Chinese woman (identified by the police as L) he had met online and in Jakarta.
Whether or not Z knew the frog was filled with drugs, he still faces Indonesia’s harsh law on drug smuggling, which might mean this frog could hop Z straight into prison for life, or worse, in front of a firing squad.
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