Police find 600 kg of drugs

TANGERANG: The Tangerang police found on Friday 600 kilograms of marijuana during a search of a house in Perum Sinta Griya Raya, Nusajaya subdistrict of Tangerang municipality, but no arrests were made.

The Tangerang Police chief of detectives of the violent crime section, Second. Insp. Gani Alamsyah, said the main suspect, Richard Cassiva, was very shrewd and the object of a police search since January 2001.

"We have been looking for him since he was renting a house in the Liga Mas housing complex on Jl. Imam Bonjol in 2001," he said.

He said the latest information the police obtained was that Richard along and his accomplices, Erwin Tantowi and Cecep, were renting the house in Perum Sinta Griya Raya and the police had been surveilling the house for three weeks.

When the suspects failed to show up as of last Friday, the police, accompanied by the local neighborhood chief and several security officers, searched the house and found the drugs.

The police said Richard ordered marijuana from Tengku Umar Komarudin, who is still at large in Banda Aceh. The marijuana was sent to Tangerang through the Sabang Mandiri delivery service. --JP