Director arrested for power theft

Director arrested for power theft

TANGERANG: The police arrested the director of Cikokol
main vegetable market, H. Memet, and one of his staff members,
Kinong, on Thursday for allegedly organizing the theft of
electricity for hundreds of vegetable vendors at the market.

Police said the two were arrested following a raid conducted
jointly with the state electricity company (PLN), which found
that the electricity relay station that supplied 36,000 volts to
the market had been tampered with.

PLN also cut the supply of the power to the market, which
resulted in complaints from some 500 vendors who sell their
vegetables at night.

PLN is engaged in an ongoing operation against power theft in
an effort to stamp out the crime, which inflicts huge financial
losses on the company.--JP

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Two Nigerians on trial for drug
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Two Nigerians on trial for drug

TANGERANG: Two Nigerians were sent to the Tangerang District
Court on Thursday for allegedly trafficking 5.6 kilograms of
heroin.

Presiding judge Permadi, however, postponed the hearing for a
week to give the defendants, Michael Titus Igweh, 23, and Hillary
K. Chimezia, 24, a chance to find a lawyer.

The two defendants, along with Zimbabwean Nkomo Kholisani
alias Ichuku Eberu Okolwaja, 33, were tried separately at the
same court in January.

But Permadi, who also presided over the sessions, freed them
because the prosecutors' indictment was considered inaccurate.

The police rearrested them for re-investigation as soon as
they left the correctional institute in February, where they were
held during their trial. Defendant Nkomo Kholisani reportedly
died at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital in East Jakarta due to
AIDS.

The defendants were first arrested in August 2002 after the
police nabbed Nkomo's girlfriend Marlena, 24, an Indonesian, on
Aug. 17, 2002 in a raid at her house, where the police found 50
grams of heroin in her bag.

Marlena died in December at the police hospital. The police
said she suffered from lung disease. --JP