Councillor arrested at club with joints

BANDARLAMPUNG, Lampung: Police here arrested a local councillor identified by the initials AY, on Friday night after he and his friends were caught in a karaoke club in the city with a supply of drugs.

From the 40-year-old AY, who is from the National Mandate Party (PAN), the police confiscated 11 rolled marijuana cigarettes.

The police also seized hundreds of ecstasy pills belonging to his two female friends AS, 24, and I, 39, and another male friend named Her, 38, according to Bandarlampung Police chief of detectives Comr. Hilman. -- JP