Japanese man arrested for drugs in Bali

Updated August 13, 2008 21:28:36

A Japanese man is facing the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested with 86 grams of marijuana on Bali island.

Police say the man, identified as Sigumari Kurusai, was a suspected drug trafficker.

"Customs officials seized about 84 grams of marijuana packed in plastic bags that were wrapped inside two black T-shirts in his luggage and another two grams in his belly bag," police spokesman Antonius Samuel Reniban says.

He was arrested on August 5 at Ngurah Rai airport and had confessed to buying the drugs in Thailand.

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