{"id":39146,"date":"2025-05-17T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/39146\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:02:09","slug":"former-american-basketball-player-could-face-death-penalty-in-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/39146\/","title":{"rendered":"Former American basketball player could face death penalty in drug case"},"content":{"rendered":"

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN Newsource\/CNN Indonesia\/WKRC) \u2014 Former American college basketball player Jarred Shaw is facing serious drug charges in Indonesia, which could lead to a life sentence or even the death penalty if convicted. <\/p>\n

Shaw, a 34-year-old Dallas native who was playing for the Tangerang Hawks, was arrested in Jakarta on May 7. Shaw had been playing in Indonesia since 2022, according to The Independent. <\/a><\/p>\n

Authorities accused Shaw of attempting to smuggle drugs into the country. During a search of his apartment, police allegedly discovered more than 100 pieces of Delta-9 THC cannabis candies. Officials reported that a package containing the candies was sent from Thailand to Shaw’s apartment.<\/p>\n

Ronald Sipayung, the Soekarno-Hatta Airport police chief, said Shaw told police that he planned on sharing the cannabis candy with his teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re still running the investigation to uncover the international drug network behind this case and to stop its distribution,\u201d Sipayung said.<\/p>\n

The chairman of the Indonesian Basketball Association emphasized the organization’s strict stance against drug use in basketball, stating, “It does not tolerate drug use in basketball.” <\/p>\n

In response to the charges, Shaw’s team announced that his contract has been terminated.<\/p>\n

Before his time in Indonesia, Shaw played college basketball in the United States at Oklahoma State and Utah State.<\/p>\n

According to CNN, roughly 530 people are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes, including 96 foreigners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN Newsource\/CNN Indonesia\/WKRC) \u2014 Former American college basketball player Jarred Shaw is facing serious drug charges…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,10828,11360,11359,10737,10862,10829,10865],"class_list":{"0":"post-39146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-death-penalty","10":"tag-delta-9-thc","11":"tag-drug-charges","12":"tag-indonesia","13":"tag-jarred-shaw","14":"tag-smuggling","15":"tag-tangerang-hawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114523075953608285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}