Man in Luxury Car Assaults Petrol Station Staff Over Subsidised Fuel, Tests Positive for Methamphetamine and Marijuana

Man Driving Vellfire Demands Subsidised Fuel, Assailant of Petrol Station Employees in East Jakarta Tests Positive for Meth and Marijuana

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Jakarta, VIVA - The man who assaulted three petrol station employees in the Cipinang area, Pulogadung, East Jakarta, and repeatedly shouted about a ‘general’s car’ and ‘the Police Chief’ has tested positive for drug use.

The perpetrator, later identified as JMH, tested positive for both methamphetamine and marijuana. This was discovered after he underwent a urine test, as he was acting erratically during questioning by police after his arrest.

“The perpetrator tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana,” said the Chief of the East Jakarta Metropolitan Police, Police Commissioner Alfian Nurrizal, as quoted from his official Instagram account on Wednesday, 25 February 2026.

It turns out that the perpetrator is just a private entrepreneur. He is a car rental employee, not a member of the Police Force.

“He is a car rental employee,” he said.

At the time of the incident, JMH was driving a black Toyota Vellfire with license plate L-1-XD, which was later found to be unregistered. He also insisted on filling the luxury car with Pertalite, a subsidised fuel. The Head of Public Relations of the Jakarta Metropolitan Police, Police Commissioner Budi Hermanto, said that the barcode for the subsidised fuel did not match the vehicle’s license plate.

“The barcode did not match the vehicle’s license plate, so the fuel could not be dispensed according to regulations,” he added.

It is worth noting that a man, suspected of being a member of the authorities, claimed that the car he was driving belonged to a general, in connection with the alleged assault on an operator during the fuel filling process at a petrol station in Cipinang, Pulogadung, East Jakarta.

“He said, ‘Do you know that this is a general’s barcode? Don’t you know this is a general’s barcode?’ He said it several times,” said one of the petrol station operators who was a victim of the assault, Lukman Hakim (19), in East Jakarta on Monday.

According to Lukman, the suspicion that the man was a member of the authorities arose from his own statements, in which he repeatedly mentioned high-ranking police positions.

These statements were made during an argument about the discrepancy in the barcode for Pertalite fuel.

Lukman said he was shocked and scared when the customer repeatedly mentioned the identity of a high-ranking police official.

In addition to mentioning “general,” the man also used the term “Police Chief” while shouting at the staff.