JAKARTA, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Four persons allegedly belonging to an international network were caught in Indonesia's Aceh province for suspicion of smuggling 33 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine to North Sumatra province.
"The four suspects consist of three customers from North Sumatra and one owner from Aceh," Brigadier General Raden Purwadi, deputy chief of the Aceh Provincial Police, told journalists on Monday.
The suspects who carried the contraband from Malaysia by sea planned to temporarily keep the illegal goods in Aceh before sending them to North Sumatra, Purwadi said.
After a two-week probe with the Aceh Customs Office, the police apprehended the suspects in North Aceh's village of Perepok on July 19, he said.
"This is an international network from Myanmar, Malaysia and then entering Aceh which is a transit place as the customer is in North Sumatra. They are actually old players but only now arrested," Purwadi said. Enditem
