Police suspect foreigners in Plaza Senayan robbery<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Jakarta Police chief Maj. Gen. Nurfaizi said on
\nMonday that detectives were looking for six foreigners in
\nconnection with Sunday's armed robbery at a jewelry store in
\nPlaza Senayan shopping center, South Jakarta.<\/p>\n
\"There were six men, all foreigners. We're trying to hunt them
\ndown. The three projectiles found at the crime scene originated
\nfrom a gas propelled gun,\" Nurfaizi announced late on Monday
\nevening.<\/p>\n
A police source said statements by witnesses indicated that
\nthe masked robbers were foreigners, one or two of whom may have
\nbeen of African origin.<\/p>\n
\"That is what witnesses have told us, based on the description
\nof the voices, accents and skin color,\" the source said.<\/p>\n
\"We are still searching for them.\"<\/p>\n
Armed thugs robbed the Benteng Jewelry store of Rp 200 million
\n(US$26,700) worth of diamonds, in Plaza Senayan on Sunday
\nevening.<\/p>\n
Budi Santoso, an on-duty security guard, earlier told The
\nJakarta Post that there were four robbers, not six, who wore dark
\nhats and masks to cover their faces.<\/p>\n
\"One of them carried a crowbar,\" Budi added. He said the
\nrobbers hit the Benteng Jewelry store at 6:40 p.m.<\/p>\n
\"They used the crowbar to break the windows and glass of the
\ndisplay tables,\" Budi said, adding that he alerted his colleagues
\nwho later called the police.<\/p>\n
Budi said the robbers grabbed the jewels and put them into a
\nblack bag during their 15-minute operation.<\/p>\n
The thugs, Budi added, shot five times at security guards and
\nat people who ran after them. \"They got into a Daihatsu minivan,
\nheading toward Jl. Palmerah. I could not memorize the car's
\nregistration number because they had taken it off,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Separately, two robberies occurred in two different places on
\nMonday.<\/p>\n
In South Jakarta, a 79-year-old woman was robbed on Monday
\nafternoon by four people, two of them allegedly her servants of
\nfour days, on Jl. M. Saedi Raya No. 34, in the Petukangan Selatan
\narea of Pesanggrahan.<\/p>\n
South Jakarta Police chief Col. Nono Suprijono identified the
\nwoman as Sarmini Tambunan.<\/p>\n
\"It was a very strange robbery. The victim communicated very
\nwell with the robbers. They ran off with Rp 90,000 (US$12), her
\ncell phone, her camera and her bird,\" Nono said.<\/p>\n
Officers said Sarmini was doing house work when the four
\nsuspects, one woman and three men, held her and tied her up with
\npillowcases.<\/p>\n
\"She ordered the robbers around. She told them not to cover
\nher nose when they tied her up or she might die. The robbers told
\nher to just be quiet and watch TV. She told them not to tie up
\nher legs too tightly,\" an officer said.<\/p>\n
The robbers untied the victim's legs before running off with
\nthe loot. Sarmini identified two of the robbers as her servants,
\nYono and Wati. She said she had no idea who the other two were.<\/p>\n
In Central Jakarta, four armed men robbed the home of another
\nelderly woman and her son in the Duri Pulo area of Gambir
\ndistrict and ran off with gold jewelry, Rp 2 million in cash and
\na cell phone at 4 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n
Chief Sgt. Petrus Joko of the crime scene unit at Central
\nJakarta Police identified the victims as Yup Bit Tin, 85, and her
\nson as Yup Goet Chai, 50.<\/p>\n
\"Three of the four robbers broke in and entered the house via
\nthe front gate. The robbers threatened the mother and son with
\nsharp weapons and forced them to stay in the bedroom while they
\nransacked the house,\" Petrus said.<\/p>\n
In an unrelated development, West Jakarta Police detectives
\ntracked down on Sunday afternoon a suspected thief, who was then
\nfatally shot in back when trying to escape arrest in the Tambora
\ndistrict.<\/p>\n
West Jakarta Police chief Col. Adjie Rustam Ramdja identified
\nthe suspect as Maman. Police had been looking for Maman since
\nMarch 20, in connection with the theft of 70 feet of fabric from
\na textile shop in the Roa Malaka subdistrict of Tambora.<\/p>\n
\"Three of his accomplices in the theft were arrested on March
\n20, the day of the crime. He was the one we didn't catch,\" Adjie
\nsaid. (ylt\/06)<\/p>",
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