Robbers nabbed after 5-month search

Robbers nabbed after 5-month search

JAKARTA: A team of officers from the Jakarta Police arrested
two suspected robbers after a five-month search for the pair.

Adj. Comr. Matrido, the head of the team, said on Friday
police arrested Suparjo at the Tanjung Priok bus terminal in
North Jakarta on Tuesday morning. information from the suspect
enabled police to apprehend Jumadi at the Palmeriam market in
Matraman, East Jakarta, later that day.

The two suspects were wanted for a robbery that took place in
August in Jakarta.

In that August robbery, the suspects allegedly followed M.
Yani Ladhi and his wife from a bank on Jl. Gatot Subroto in South
Jakarta, after the pair withdrew Rp 9 million (US$1,059).

The victims left the bank, got into their car and drove to Jl.
Bendungan Hilir in Central Jakarta, where Ladhi parked the car
and the couple went into the Benhil market.

The two suspects allegedly broke into the car and stole the
money, which was in a brown envelope beneath the driver's seat.

Matrido said the suspects, who are being held at the city
police detention center, had confessed to committing two such
robberies in 2003. -- JP