Bekasi poultry farmer and wife robbed again
Bekasi poultry farmer and wife robbed again
BEKASI (JP): Police said yesterday they have identified five
of the estimated eight suspects believed to have robbed for the
second time a poultry breeding farm manager and sexually
assaulted his wife in the small village of Cimuning at
Bantargebang.
"A team of our detectives have been assigned to hunt the five
suspects, whose identities are already known to us," Bekasi
police chief Lt. Col. Alex Bambang Riatmodjo said yesterday.
According to Alex, two of the identified suspects are strongly
believed to be the same persons who robbed the couple and
sexually assaulted the housewife on Jan. 30 this year.
"We haven't yet to come to any preliminary conclusion about
the motive," officer Alex said.
"Keep your fingers crossed for us that we'll be able to nab
the suspects, which could lead us to the motive for the robbery,"
he said.
According to the farm manager, Yanto Sugiyanto, 34, the
predawn robbery on Wednesday at the farmhouse was almost a re-
enactment of what happened in January.
"They broke into the house at around 3 a.m., overpowered my
workers, entered my bedroom, tied me and my wife up, pointed
sharp weapons at us and asked for money and gold jewelry," Yanto
told The Jakarta Post yesterday at the farm owned by a Jakarta
businessman.
While some of them looked for valuables, one of them took
Yanto's wife from his side and tried to rape the 27-year-old
housewife, said Yanto, who was hired to handle the 20,000
chickens at the farm.
The robbers ransacked the house before making off with Rp 2.5
million cash (US$1,000) in cash and three grams of gold jewelry.
In the first robbery, the group, which police said consisted
of five members, including three of those already arrested, stole
280 grams of jewelry and Rp 1 million in cash.
A few days after the January robbery, police arrested three of
the five suspects. All of them were shot in the leg while trying
to resist arrest.
They were later identified as Salim, 46, Marsani, alias
Bagong, 34, and Pandi, 36.
In the first robbery, the suspects wore masks but this time
they did not.
"Of the four men who came into my room on Wednesday, I could
only recognize one of them who I believed was the same person who
broke into my farm five months ago," Yanto said.
"I don't know what they want from me. I'm not rich. It's the
company's money they stole," he said.
"My wife and I have decided to soon move from this village,"
Yanto said.
He said, the media seem to enjoy making continuous false
stories about the earlier incident, by continuously reporting
that his wife was raped and was done so in front of him.
"Even the police and doctors never come to such a conclusion,"
he said.
About Wednesday's robbery, he said, his wife was shocked and
did not realize what was happening when one of the men took her
to the bathroom. (bsr)