Baked and arrested: Bali police apprehends a man for baking and selling weed cookies
Denpasar Police recently arrested a man for making cannabis cookies at a house in the capital of Bali.
The suspect has also reportedly served jail time in the past for drug-related offenses.
Denpasar Police Chief Comr. Bambang Yugo Pamungkas said that Yogyakarta-born ECB, 24, was arrested on Tukad Musi Street on April 1 at around 7pm.
The police later searched his house on Ida Bagus Oka Gang Pasa Tempo Street and found 19 cookies laced with weed. ECB was previously arrested for a similar crime in 2018, and served two years and eight months behind bars after he was found guilty.
ECB confessed to the authorities that he was instructed by D, now a fugitive, to bake cannabis cookies in March.
Pamungkas said that the baked goods contain flour, water, eggs, butter, cane sugar, salt, baking powder, and cannabinoid powder.
He later noted that a synthetic cannabinoid called ADB-FUBIATA, also found in the cookies, is not yet included on Indonesia’s drugs list.
“[Now that it is confirmed] that ADB-FUBIATA is in Indonesia, [this] can be a warning to the Ministry of Health to update the narcotics list so that [ADB-FUBIATA] can be included,” he said, adding that the synthetic cannabinoid was sent from China.