Police seize dirty magazines

Police seize dirty magazines

JAKARTA (JP): Kemayoran police have arrested two suspects and seized a total of 4,000 pornographic magazines at their house in Cempaka Baru, Central Jakarta.

Central Jakarta Police Chief Lt. Col. Murawi Effendi, said the two suspects, identified as Gerry and Sium, were arrested at 2:30 a.m. on Thursday.

"The police detectives were actually assigned to arrest the two upon the request of the Purwakarta, West Java, police for their alleged fencing of stolen garment machines," Murawi told reporters on Saturday.

However, the officers failed to find any evidence the men were acting as fences at the house. Instead they found 4,000 copies of pornographic magazines in one of the rooms.

The magazines are believed to have been reprinted here from the originals purchased overseas. The people featured in the photographs are European, American and Chinese. (bsr)