Samosir resort police in North Sumatra found a cannabis field on Friday 26 July 2019 and held the man they said owned it.[1] Radar Medan placed the field in Dusun I Pasar Bengkok, Sijambur village, Ronggur Nihuta district, and put its size at about 1 rante, a local land measure.[1] Metro Rakyat, quoting the head of the drug unit, placed the same find in Panaharan, Sijambur, also at 1 rante.[2] Officers held 42-year-old Pardamean Siringo-ringo, also called PS, a resident of Panaharan in Sijambur.[2] Ronggur Nihuta subdistrict head Sittor Silalahi told Radar Medan that police had been at the field since the night before and seized a man of the Siringoringo clan when he came to it the next day.[1] Iptu Natar Sibarani, speaking for police chief AKBP Agus Darojat, said officers had watched the site for four days and arrested the man without resistance as he was about to leave a house.[2] Sibarani said he was a repeat offender in the same kind of case under Karo police in 2009.[2]
The drug unit took him and the plants to Samosir police headquarters.[2] Officers seized 178 cannabis plants ready for harvest and about 5 kilograms of picked cannabis leaves, Sibarani said.[2] Radar Medan reporters saw stacks of cannabis plants, wrapped and tied in plastic jute sacks, already held in the yard of the station.[1]
Deputy police chief Kompol CH. Simanjuntak told Radar Medan he could not yet give a fuller account, because officers had only just come back from the site and a briefing would follow the next day.[1] Sibarani said the case began with a tip that cannabis was growing in Ronggur Nihuta, which a check by officers confirmed.[2]
