by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
Could 19, 2025
Law enforcement officials raided his condo and seized 132 items of hashish sweet
An abroad basketball participant from Dallas, Jarred Dwayne Shaw, has been arrested and is at risk of going through a loss of life sentence in Indonesia after being accused of smuggling medicine into the nation.
In response to The Related Press, Shaw, 34, who performed school basketball for Utah State College and Oklahoma State College, was arrested after cops raided his condo and seized 132 items of hashish sweet. Regulation enforcement officers have been notified after customs on the airport alerted them that the basketball participant obtained a suspicious airway bundle from Thailand, in accordance with Ronald Sipayung, the Soekarno-Hatta Airport police chief. The arrest happened Could 7.
Shaw, who hails from Dallas, lately signed with the Tangerang Hawks of the Indonesian Basketball League and has been taking part in with a number of groups since 2022.
Because of the allegations and arrest, Tangerang Hawks’ supervisor, Tikky Suwantikno, acknowledged that the membership had instantly fired Shaw for breaching his contract. The Indonesian Basketball League chair, Budisatrio Djiwandono, mentioned Shaw has been banned from taking part in within the league for all times.
“We don’t tolerate gamers, directors, or anybody within the area concerned in medicine. There is no such thing as a room for drug customers within the basketball world,” Djiwandono mentioned.
In Shaw’s condo, the sweet contained a gross weight of 869 grams (30.6 ounces) of unlawful cannabinoid within the bundle. Whereas being interrogated, he expressed to the police that he needed to share the hashish sweet along with his fellow basketball gamers.
“We’re nonetheless operating the investigation to uncover the worldwide medicine community behind this case and to cease its distribution,” Sipayung mentioned.
Because of the nation’s strict anti-drug legal guidelines, Shaw may face a life sentence or the loss of life penalty if convicted. He may face a firing squad as a convicted smuggler. The final time there have been executions in Indonesia was in July 2016 when the nation convicted a local and three foreigners.
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