Police seize 3 kg of hashish

BANDUNG, West Java: Police confiscated here yesterday three- kilograms of hashish and arrested the seven people suspected of selling the illegal substance.

Five of the seven arrested were registered as students at a local university. Of the five, two are women.

Col. Erwin Map of Bandung Police, claims that the hashish was distributed from a syndicate from Medan, North Sumatra, who probably acquired it from Aceh.

"Our officers received word of a transaction on Jl. Soekarno- Hatta here," he explained. "We followed it up and the information was correct.

"Our team moved in and caught them red-handed. The evidence was wrapped up in three plastic bags. After we weighed it the hashish was about three-kilograms," he added.

Erwin said the suspects were being interrogated. (43)