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.