Former U.S. college basketball player Jarred Shaw could face the death penalty in Indonesia after his arrest Thursday for allegedly smuggling cannabis candy drugs.
The 34-year-old played for Oklahoma State and Utah State before enjoying a brief stint in the NBA’s minor G-League.
The world’s biggest Muslim-majority country has extremely strict drug laws and convicted smugglers are sometimes executed by firing squad, CNN reports.
Shaw, from Dallas, Texas, was arrested May 7, after police raided his apartment in Tangerang regency, just outside the capital, Jakarta.
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Authorities seized 132 pieces of cannabis candies, said Ronald Sipayung, the Soekarno-Hatta Airport police chief, per the CNN report. The outlet continues:
The arrest followed a tip from the airport’s customs that reported Shaw had received a suspicious airway package from
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