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        "id": 1849135,
        "msgid": "cartenz-peace-task-force-arrests-five-in-kkb-firearms-network-1783569208",
        "date": "2026-07-09 09:57:33",
        "title": "Cartenz Peace Task Force Arrests Five in KKB Firearms Network",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Legal",
        "summary": "The Cartenz Peace Task Force has arrested five individuals in Jayapura suspected of involvement in a network supplying firearms to an armed criminal group (KKB) in the Yalimo-Yahukimo region. One of the suspects, identified as AG, was already on a wanted list for acting as an intermediary in the illegal arms trade. The arrests are part of an ongoing investigation that previously uncovered hundreds of ammunition rounds and several firearms.",
        "content": "<p>Jayapura (ANTARA) - The Cartenz Peace Operation Task Force has\narrested five suspects allegedly involved in a network trafficking\nfirearms for the KKB in Yalimo-Yahukimo.<\/p>\n<p>The five individuals, arrested on Tuesday (7 July) at various\nlocations in Jayapura City, have the initials AG, FCRG, JT, IK and\nMK.<\/p>\n<p>Task Force Spokesperson for the Cartenz Peace Operation, Police\nCommissioner Yusuf Sutejo, said on Thursday that among those arrested\nwas AG, who had been on the wanted list (DPO) for his role as an\nintermediary in the illegal firearms trafficking network operating\nbetween Yalimo and Yahukimo.<\/p>\n<p>AG had been placed on the wanted list based on Police Report Number\nLP\/A\/1\/III\/2026\/SPKT Ditkrimum\/Polda Papua, dated 13 March.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of the firearms and ammunition network for the KKB was the\nresult of follow-up work by Cartenz Peace Operation Task Force\npersonnel, following the earlier arrest of SP and DK on 12 March, who\nare suspected of being affiliated with the Yaligem Kodap KKB in\nYalimo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigators are still looking into AG\u2019s involvement in a\ntransaction on 4 March for the purchase of one homemade long-barrelled\nfirearm worth around Rp80 million,\u201d said Police Commissioner Yusuf.<\/p>\n<p>He said AG\u2019s arrest formed part of a series of investigations that in\nMarch secured 298 rounds of ammunition, four SS1 magazines, one\nassembled homemade firearm, and six Second World War-era firearm barrels\nfound in a rusty condition and without stocks.<\/p>\n<p>All five suspects have been charged under Article 306 in conjunction\nwith Article 20 of Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code,\nwhich carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years, said Task Force\nSpokesperson Police Commissioner Yusuf Sutejo.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/cartenz-peace-task-force-arrests-five-in-kkb-firearms-network-1783569208",
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