Eight arrested for stealing

Eight arrested for stealing

JAKARTA (JP): The police arrested three market security guards
and five other men Wednesday for stealing women's clothes worth
Rp 32 million (US$13,333) from a department store in Tanah Abang
market, Central Jakarta.

Central Jakarta Police Lt. Col. M. Ibrahim said the police
arrested the security guards, identified only as Ar, Dan and Has,
in nearby houses after receiving a report from the shop owner,
Mustofa, on Tuesday.

"We questioned several witnesses and arrested the security
guards in their houses. They surrendered without any resistance,"
Ibrahim said.

He said the police also seized clothes in one of the security
guards' houses.

He said the other five suspects; two cleaning service
employees, a drinks seller and two jobless men, were arrested in
neighboring areas.

"The suspects broke into the Matahari store early in the
morning and stole the clothes," Ibrahim said.

He said the men entered the store by breaking down a door, and
when Mustofa arrived in the morning he was shocked to find his
merchandise missing.

Ibrahim said some of the stolen clothes had been sold by the
suspects at city markets at very low prices. "Some of the clothes
were also sold to two fences."

The police were looking for the fences, he said, without going
into detail.

Central Jakarta Police are still looking for the burglars who
stole cash and goods worth hundreds of millions rupiah from a
house in Tanah Abang, a photo studio in Menteng and a workshop in
Gambir over the past six days.

The burglars used sickles to threaten the victims. (jun)