Police stop thieves being mobbed<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Police shot tear gas in order to save two
\nthieves being mobbed by angry residents who caught them red-
\nhanded stealing a motor cycle on Jl. Kelapa Lilin II, Utan Kayu
\nsubdistrict, Matraman, East Jakarta on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The police then took the two black-and-blue thieves, 24-year
\nold Sunardi and 21-year old Riyadi, to Matraman police station
\nfor questioning, instead of taking them to hospital.<\/p>\n
According to Mahmud, a local resident who joined the mob, the
\ntwo thieves were seen stealing a GL Max motor cycle belonging to
\nMuhammad, 36, a resident of Duren Tiga, South Jakarta, who was
\nvisiting a relative.<\/p>\n
Mahmud said as soon as Muhammad parked his motor cycle in
\nfront of his relative's house at about 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night,
\nthe two thieves came and tried to take the motor cycle.<\/p>\n
\"One of us (local residents) saw them and shouted 'thief!' so
\nthat other residents rushed to the crime scene and immediately
\nsurrounded the thieves, who were trying to escape,\" he told The
\nJakarta Post at the crime scene on Monday.<\/p>\n
He said residents were not satisfied by only mobbing the
\nthieves. The residents wanted to burn them alive, but police
\nofficers from East Jakarta Police Headquarters happened to pass
\nby.<\/p>\n
The police quickly went to the crime scene and tried to save
\nthe thieves. But the angry residents prevented the police from
\ntaking the thieves, and that prompted the police to fire tear gas
\nto disperse the people.<\/p>\n
As the residents dispersed to avoid the tear gas, police
\nofficers took the thieves and handed them over to Matraman police
\nstation.(01)<\/p>",
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