Police shoot would be thief

Police shoot would be thief

JAKARTA (JP): A man who was attempting to steal an air
conditioner was shot in the hip by a police officer from the
Mampang Police station.

According to the police report, Darwin bin Ganger, 36, and
four of his friends were trying to escape with the air
conditioner in a Marina taxi when the police caught up with them
at the Pondok Karya intersection in the Pela Mampang subdistrict
of South Jakarta.

Mampang Police officers stopped the taxi and the five suspects
tried to run off with the air conditioner.

"Four suspects got away and one was shot in the hip. He's
probably still at Kramatjati Police Hospital," City police
spokesman Lt. Col. Zainuri Lubis said. (ylt)