Posted on 05/15/2025 11:29:13 AM PDT by DFG
An American basketball player for the Indonesian league was arrested after allegedly attempting to smuggle illegal drugs to the country, Indonesian authorities said Thursday.
The Southeast Asian country has extremely strict drug laws, and convicted smugglers are sometimes executed by firing squad.
Jarred Shaw is accused of smuggling cannabis candy
Jarred Dwayne Shaw, 34, from Dallas, was arrested May 7, after police raided his apartment just outside the capital, Jakarta, and seized 132 pieces of cannabis candies, said Ronald Sipayung, the Soekarno-Hatta Airport police chief.
Shaw played college basketball at Oklahoma State and Utah State. He attended Dallas ISD's Carter High School, where he was District 11-4A Defensive Player of the Year as a senior, according to a biography on the Utah State athletics website.
Suspicious package from Thailand led to his arrest arrest
The arrest followed a tip from the airport's customs that reported Shaw had received a suspicious airway package from Thailand, Sipayung said. Cannabis has been decriminalized in Thailand since November 2024. Under Indonesia's anti-drug laws, Shaw faces up to life sentence or death penalty if found guilty, Sipayung said.
A video circulating on social media purportedly showed Shaw, wearing a black T-shirt and shorts, resisting as he's being pushed away by police and shouting "Help … help!" when he was about to be arrested.
Shaw says cannabis candy was meant for teammates
Shaw has played for several clubs in the Indonesian Basketball League since 2022, and signed a contract with Tangerang Hawk last year. He told police during interrogation that he wanted to share the cannabis candy with fellow basketball players, according to Sipayung.
He said the candy contained a total gross weight of 30.6 ounces of illegal cannabinoid inside a package.
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Acquiring illegal drugs with the stated intent of distributing to others? Resisting arrest? He’ll be going away for awhile.
Anyone who possesses cannabis candy in a country like Indonesia is incredibly stupid. The world does not hold as permissive attitudes toward drugs as the US. You end up in jail for a long time or perhaps end up dead.
But honor killings are a-ok
Their house, their rules.
When I lived in Asia, every year or two there would be some sob story about some Aussie surfer in Bali whose surfboard was full of cocaine or something and they claimed they didn’t know it was there. They’d be facing the death penalty and there’d be massive outcry from the Aussies and others. Trafficking drugs through muzzie countries is just about the stupidest thing you can do. If they took an extra day and went through Hong Kong, they’d probably get 5 years.
I wonder if the league warns their players about these things?
I don’t want him killed but he had to know that this was not OK since he has been there since 2022 and ordered them from thailand.
Darwin strikes again.
“Send lawyers, guns and money!”
Worse. That makes you a "dealer." Death for sure.
I am okay with his death penalty over this thing he did.
You don’t do this—in any country.
NO ONE is above the law.
At least President Trump might protect him from being executed.
Dopy.
You don’t murder and execute people for weed.
Ditto Singapore.
I’m not sure if the chewing gum law is still in effect in Singapore but it was illegal to sell it. IIRC the issue was blobs on discarded gum on the sidewalks.
You do in some countries.
And I am for it.
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