Unlike his fellow basketball player Brittney Griner, Jarred Shaw has received scant attention after being arrested for a drugs offence overseas
When Jarred Shaw, an American basketball player in Indonesia, stepped down to the lobby in his apartment complex earlier this year to collect a package containing illegally imported cannabis gummies, he thought that the medicine to ease his Crohn’s disease had arrived.
It had – but so too had 10 undercover police officers. A video on social media shows Shaw, wearing a black T-shirt and shorts, shouting for help as the swarm of officers move to apprehend him.
The Indonesian National Police did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
Written by Mattha Busby
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/oct/03/jarred-shaw-drugs-arrest-indonesia-basketball under the title “‘I use cannabis as medicine’: the US basketball player facing execution in Indonesia over $400 of gummies”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
