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A Singaporean man was arrested in northern Jakarta on July 17 after Indonesian authorities raided a house being used to produce etomidate vapes, also known as Kpods.<\/p>\n
Local media outlet IDN Times identified the 34-year-old suspect by the initials LHM and the alias Hayden.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe arrested a foreign national from Singapore and seized thousands of pieces of evidence during the operation,\u201d Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Police chief, Senior Commissioner Wisnu Wardana, was quoted as saying by state news agency Antara.<\/p>\n
He added that the man was cooking or mixing the etomidate when airport police and customs agencies raided the house, reported local news outlet IDN Times.<\/p>\n
Items seized in the raid included thousands of ready-for-distribution drug cartridges and mini laboratory equipment used to produce the etomidate.<\/p>\n
Antara reported that the home-based operation had begun producing the drug cartridges just a day before the raid.<\/p>\n
An investigation is under way to determine how many cartridges were produced and how long the operation had been running.<\/p>\n
Wisnu said the suspect and the seized evidence had been transferred to the airport police for further investigation.<\/p>\n
The house used in the drug production, located in the upscale Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK) area, has also been sealed off.<\/p>\n
The head of the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Police Narcotics Unit, Michael Kharisma Tandayu, said the house was rented by another Singaporean, who had recruited the suspect to produce 500 etomidate vape cartridges a day.<\/p>\n
Michael said the suspect had arrived in Indonesia on July 13, reported IDN Times.<\/p>\n
Wisnu said the raid stemmed from an ongoing investigation into two bottles containing 2,200g of etomidate that had been smuggled from Malaysia and intercepted by airport customs.<\/p>\n
The seized material was enough to produce up to 2,000 drug cartridges.<\/p>\n
The police and customs authorities then launched a joint operation to dismantle the drug syndicate behind the smuggling, leading them to the house in PIK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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