Pubdate: Fri, 19 Jan 2001
Source: Indonesian Observer (Indonesia)
Copyright: 2001 The Indonesian Observer
Contact:  http://www.indoexchange.com/indonesian-observer

3 POLICE CAUGHT WITH 1.3 TONS OF MARIJUANA

JAKARTA (IO) - The Jakarta Metropolitan Police have nabbed six 
people, including three police officers, and seized 1.3 tons of 
marijuana during a raid at a house in Jakarta's satellite city of 
Tangerang late Wednesday.

Chief of North Jakarta Police, Chief Commissioner Andi Khaeruddin 
said here yesterday that they are now being held at the North Jakarta 
Police headquarters for further questioning.

Khaerudin said the three officers, who are members of the elite 
Mobile Brigade, claimed to be conducting a raid when police found 
them in the house.

But the three failed to produce an arrest warrant demanded by the 
police, he said.

The suspects told police the marijuana came from Aceh province, where 
it is widely grown.

Khaeruddin was quoted by Satunet as saying that the raid was carried 
out by police after they received information from five other 
suspects, who were arrested on January 14 with four kilograms of 
marijuana in the Tugu district of North Jakarta.

The five suspects told police they obtained the marijuana from a 
house in the Regency housing complex in Tangerang, said Khaeruddin, 
adding that two of the three police had tried to halt the raid by 
saying that they were also conducting a raid.

The two police then aimed their pistols at the police officers from 
North Jakarta.

They later took possession of a vehicle and a 22 mm caliber pistol. 
Police are still hunting Iwan, the main suspect.
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