US EditionAn American basketball player arrested in Indonesia for alleged drug smuggling
- Jarred Dwayne Shaw, a 34-year-old American basketball player in Indonesia, was arrested on May 7 in Tangerang regency for allegedly smuggling illegal drugs.
- Police apprehended Shaw following a customs alert about a questionable airway shipment he had gotten from Thailand containing cannabis candies.
- Authorities seized 132 cannabis candies with a gross weight of 869 grams of illegal cannabinoid, and Shaw said he wanted to share them with fellow players.
- Shaw received a lifetime suspension from the Indonesian Basketball League, while authorities continue to investigate the international drug network involved in the case to halt further drug trafficking.
- Shaw could be sentenced to life imprisonment or capital punishment under Indonesia’s stringent drug regulations, highlighting the nation’s severe approach and its sizable population on death row for drug offenses.
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