Armed thieves nabbed, another shot

Armed thieves nabbed, another shot

BOGOR: The Bogor Police arrested on Wednesday three men
suspected of armed theft and shot dead another.

Bogor Police intelligence chief Asrizal confirmed the arrests,
saying that the group usually targeted cars in factories and
residential areas in Bogor. He did not elaborate on the place of
the arrests, saying only that the suspects were arrested in East
Jakarta. The fourth suspect was shot when he tried to escape.

He said the suspects had been wanted by the police for some
time. "They often robbed their victims in Bogor. Their latest
theft was in Cikaret subdistrict," he said.

According to Asrizal, the suspects usually confronted their
victims with machetes, sickles and FN pistols and were not
hesitant to injure or kill their victims. --JP