Four questioned over an armed robbery in Cilandak<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Cilandak Police detectives are questioning four
\nwitnesses in connection with an early Monday morning robbery in
\nwhich five suspected robbers got away with one kilogram of gold
\nbars and jewelry, Rp 15 million (US$2,150) and $1,000 in cash
\nfrom a shop-house on Jl. Fatmawati in South Jakarta, the
\nsubprecinct chief said.<\/p>\n
Maj. Nurhayati said on Monday that one of the witnesses, a
\nmarine officer, saw the five suspects hurriedly getting into an
\nangkot (public minivan), despite the fact that they were being
\nchased by local residents.<\/p>\n
\"I have a feeling the angkot driver must have been in on the
\nrobbery, if they really did get into an angkot, that is,\"
\nNurhayati told reporters at the Cilandak subprecinct.<\/p>\n
\"We had our police dogs search the shop-house and about a 100-
\nmeter radius around the crime scene. At least two machetes were
\nretrieved in the area. One of them was at a food stall nearby the
\nshop-house. One of the robbers must have just thrown it there.\"<\/p>\n
The robbers, Nurhayati said, had climbed from the back of the
\nDwi Jaya shop-house onto the roof where they broke the lock of a
\ndoor which lead to a staircase going into the house.<\/p>\n
\"The back of the house is just an open field which leads to a
\nnearby bus stop on Jl. Fatmawati. The robbers left the same way
\nthey came in ... They broke open the door on the roof leading
\ninto the shop-house,\" Nurhayati said.<\/p>\n
\"Once the door was open, they slowly deactivated the alarm
\nsystem and broke the lock on an iron door that blocks part of the
\nstaircase. They then went into the house, got into the master
\nbedroom and threatened to kill anybody who made a noise,\" she
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
\"They robbed everything from a suitcase lying in a cupboard in
\nthe master bedroom.\"<\/p>\n
Nurhayati identified the victims as Rusianto, 52, his wife,
\nSinah, his daughter Theresia, his nephews A Siang and Tong Chai,
\nand their maid, Nasiwan.<\/p>\n
At the Dwi Jaya shop-house, which lies opposite the Retna
\nclinic and apothecary, Rusianto told reporters that the family
\nhad just returned on Sunday night from Marunda in North Jakarta,
\nfollowing Christmas dinner with relatives there.<\/p>\n
\"We were all sleeping soundly in our bedrooms. Suddenly, I saw
\nthree dark shadows in my room telling me that nobody would be
\nhurt ... that they just wanted money. They had shiny machetes
\nwith them,\" Rusianto said.<\/p>\n
He said that two other robbers then entered the room with the
\nrest of the family.<\/p>\n
\"It was about 2:45 a.m.,\" Rusianto said.<\/p>\n
While Rusianto's wife, daughter, nephews and maid were told to
\nlie face down on the master bed, where they were all tied with
\nbed sheets, a robber took a mattress from an adjacent room, laid
\nit on the master bedroom floor and told Rusianto to lie on it
\nface down. He was also tied up with a bed sheet.<\/p>\n
\"They just opened the cupboard ... kept on speaking in a thick
\nBatak accent, started emptying the drawers very noisily, removed
\nthe clothes from the cupboard and found a suitcase. They asked my
\nwife for the combination number of the lock on the suitcase and
\nshe gave it to them,\" Rusianto said.<\/p>\n
The robbers took the money and the gold from the suitcase.<\/p>\n
Rusianto and Sinah said they noticed one of the robbers was
\nonly in his T-shirt and underwear.<\/p>\n
\"I have no idea why this one man was only in his underwear. It
\nmust have been really wet and muddy at the back of the house. I
\nwas just scared that these people would do something to my
\ndaughter,\" Rusianto said.<\/p>\n
After getting the loot, the robbers went to the shop, broke
\nopen the door and took some rambutan fruit from an old box. They
\nthen laid the fruit on the living room table and ate them.<\/p>\n
When they were just leaving through the same door they came
\nback in and one robber called out: \"Do you have any rice?\"<\/p>\n
At this, Sinah told them that they should look for it
\nthemselves in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
As the robbers climbed down the roof, a neighbor who had
\ngotten up to have his sahur (the pre-fasting meal during the
\nRamadhan fasting month) spotted the robbers and screamed:
\nRobbers! Robbers!<\/p>\n
While some banged on Rusianto's door to warn him, other
\nneighbors ran after the robbers, who had by then broken into a
\nrun and got as far as a bus stop where they got on an angkot.<\/p>\n
Sinah said that this was the third robbery at their house.<\/p>\n
\"The previous two robberies also happened around the time of
\nthe fasting month,\" Sinah said. (ylt)<\/p>",
"url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/four-questioned-over-an-armed-robbery-in-cilandak-1447893297",
"image": ""
},
"sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
"sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com"
}