by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
October 3, 2025
‘They’re making it seem to be I’m this large drug vendor. Why would I convey the sweet right here to promote? It was for private use.’
American basketball participant Jarred Shaw is at present going through the dying penalty in Indonesia after he was arrested for receiving imported hashish gummies, that are unlawful within the nation.
Shaw, who performed for Prawira Bandung within the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL), instructed The Guardian that the gummies had been to deal with his Crohn’s illness.
After he grabbed the package deal from the foyer of his condominium complicated on Could 7, Indonesian police confiscated 132 items of hashish sweet. Regulation enforcement officers had been tipped off by customs on the airport that the veteran basketball participant acquired a suspicious airway package deal from Thailand, in line with Ronald Sipayung, the Soekarno-Hatta Airport police chief.
Shaw stated he deliberate to make use of the gummies for his situation. Regulation enforcement stated he deliberate to share the gummies with teammates.
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Shaw is at present in jail, simply outdoors Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta. He has but to obtain a courtroom date.
“I take advantage of hashish as a drugs,” Shaw, 35, instructed The Guardian in a telephone interview from jail. “There’s no medication aside from hashish that stops my abdomen from aching.”
Now he faces the potential for spending his life in jail or the dying penalty.
“I’ve by no means been by means of something like this,” stated Shaw, who has additionally been banned for all times from the IBL.
“I don’t use it to have enjoyable and go occasion,” he added. “With my abdomen situation, typically it’s laborious for me to maintain meals down or go to the bathroom. It simply soothes the ache a bit bit.”
A GoFundMe was began by Shaw’s buddy, Bree Petruzio, to boost cash to assist along with his authorized charges.
“They’re making it seem to be I’m this large drug vendor,” Shaw stated. “Why would I convey the sweet right here to promote? It was for private use.”
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