Businessman nabbed for carrying gun

JAKARTA (JP): Police apprehended a man for allegedly possessing an FN gun loaded with six blank bullets during a routine raid in the early hours of Tuesday.

City police spokesman Lt. Col. Zainuri Lubis identified the man as businessman Franky Wijaya, 24, a resident of Kebon Kacang, Tanah Abang district, Central Jakarta.

He said Franky was arrested at 1:30 a.m. on Jl. K.H. Mas Mansyur.

He failed to submit a license for the gun to the police officers, Lubis said.

"Preliminary questioning is still focusing on the suspect's motive for carrying the weapon."

Franky is currently detained at Central Jakarta Police Headquarters. (emf)