Police arrest three robbers

TANGERANG: Tangerang Police have rounded up three of a gang of five robbers who had targeted bank customers in the area.

The robbers identified only by initials as RN, 26, JKI, 38, and PDN, 30, were apprehended separately at their homes.

Tangerang Police detectives chief Comr. Moch Hendra said that detectives had tracked them for a long time before the arrest.

"Unfortunately, we have failed to apprehend the two remaining suspects, BS and KD, who are still at large," Hendra said as quoted by Tempointeraktif.

The arrested suspects allegedly confessed to police about their roles in a robbery on April 29, where the gang made off with cash amounting to Rp 36 million belonging to PT Usaha Pangan Sentosa. A company employee, Arif Rahman Hakim, was injured during the robbery. --JP