Heroin dealers arrested<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Police arrested four heroin dealers, two of them
\nuniversity students, yesterday for locking up a woman in a house
\non Jl. Raya Karang Tengah, in Cilandak, South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
South Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. Sisno Adiwinoto said Sofia
\nAnissa, 21, had been locked up by suspects Hardianto Sihombing
\nalias Anto, Popon Yunifah, Nandang alias Katel, and Riva
\nSihombing for five days.<\/p>\n
\"The suspects took Sofia as hostage because Sofia's friends
\nfled before paying for heroin they bought from the suspects,\"
\nSisno said.<\/p>\n
He said Anto, who was a university student, lived on Jl. Blok
\nC, at the Sawangan Permai housing complex in Bogor.<\/p>\n
Nandang who was also a university student resided on Jl.
\nPendopo Raya, also in Bogor, he said.<\/p>\n
The remaining two suspects were unemployed.<\/p>\n
The incident began when Sofia and her friends, identified as
\nMichael, Donal, Gabriel, and Eli, went to the house on May 20 and
\nmet the suspects, Sisno said.<\/p>\n
Michael told Anto that he wanted to buy some putauw, a cheap
\nkind of heroin. He agreed to pay Rp 320,000 (US$133) for one
\nounce of the heroin after tasting it, Sisno said.<\/p>\n
He said Sofia was waiting in front of the house when Michael,
\nDonal and Eli suddenly fled in a blue Volkswagen van with the
\nstolen heroin.<\/p>\n
Sisno said Sofia, who was abandoned by her friends, was
\ncaptured by the suspects.<\/p>\n
The suspects hoped that Sofia's friends would return the
\nheroin or the money, he said.<\/p>\n
He said the suspects locked up Sofia, a resident from
\nCilangkap village, in Cibinong, Bogor, in a room and did not feed
\nher.<\/p>\n
Sofia escaped on May 25 but was chased by the suspects, he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The victim then hid in a house of a neighborhood head, he
\nsaid, who rushed her to nearby Fatmawati Hospital. She was in bad
\ncondition, he said.<\/p>\n
Sofia, accompanied by her parents and the neighborhood head,
\nreported the case to the police.<\/p>\n
He said the police, who had watched the empty house since the
\nreport, arrested the suspects yesterday.<\/p>\n
The police also questioned the owner of the house, identified
\nas Deny.<\/p>\n
Sisno said police were still hunting for three other suspected
\naccomplices, identified as Theresia, Fifi and Danu. (jun)<\/p>",
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