Three British nationals could face death by firing squad for allegedly smuggling cocaine into Indonesia

Three British nationals could face death by a firing squad after they allegedly smuggled about a kilogram over two pounds of cocaine onto the island of Bali in Indonesia The Associated Press announced that prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara explained -year-old Jonathan Christopher Collyer and -year-old Lisa Ellen Stocker were arrested Feb after customs officers stopped them at the X-ray machine when they determined suspicious items disguised as food packages inside their luggage Umbara stated the District Court in Denpasar during a court hearing on Tuesday that a lab test conclusion verified pouches of Angel Delight powdered dessert mix in Collyer s luggage along with seven similar pouches in Stocker s suitcase contained grams or pounds of cocaine worth about billion rupiah Two days after Collyer and Stocker were arrested police arrested -year-old Phineas Ambrose Float after a delivery sting set up by law enforcement that involved the other two persons handing the drug to him in the parking lot of a hotel in Denpasar AMERICAN BASKETBALL PERFORMER ARRESTED IN INDONESIA COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY FOR CANNABIS CANDY REPORTFloat is being tried separately according to Umbara The cocaine was transported from England to Indonesia by way of the Doha International Airport in Qatar Umbara explained The trio successfully smuggled cocaine into Bali on two previous occasions before being stopped on their third attempt Ponco Indriyo the deputy director of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit stated during a news conference in Denpasar on Feb AUSTRALIAN LEADERSHIP INTERCEPT OVER A TON OF COCAINE WORTH MThe charges against the trio were communicated on Tuesday in a Bali courtroom If convicted they could face the death penalty In Indonesia drug middlemen are sometimes executed by way of a firing squad A panel of three judges adjourned the trial until June when the court will listen to testimony from observers NOEM CALLS FOR THE DEATH PENALTY FOLLOWING MARITIME HUMAN SMUGGLING ATTEMPT THAT LEFT CHILD DEADAccording to the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections there are at this time people on death row in Indonesia including foreigners mostly for drug-related crimes the AP communicated The last executions in Indonesia were of an Indonesian and three foreigners which were carried out in July Lindsay Sandiford from Great Britain has been on death row in Indonesia for over a decade Sandiford was arrested in after she was discovered to be in possession of more than eight pounds of cocaine in the lining of her luggage at Bali s airport The highest court in Indonesia upheld the death sentence for Sandiford in The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is a major drug-smuggling hub despite having chosen of the strictest drug laws in the world in part because international drug syndicates target its young population The Associated Press contributed to this account