Student gang leader nabbed

Student gang leader nabbed

TANGERANG: Batu Ceper police has arrested a student who led a
gang that committed a series of robberies on bus passengers to
fund drug, liquor and prostitute appetites.

Batu Ceper subprecinct police chief Insp. Endro Subagio
identified the suspect as Djoko Haryanto, 19, who is in the third
year of Cengkareng Griya Putra senior technical high school.

Earlier, police arrested three students from the same school:
Bambang, 16, Irwansyah, 17, and Andika, 18, several hours after
they robbed and injured three passengers on a minibus traveling
along Jl. Daan Mogot. Djoko managed to escape.

Endro said Djoko was found with a replica caliber 38 colt gun
and two live bullets when Kalideres police raided buses on Monday
evening.

The Kalideres police later transferred the suspects to Batu
Ceper police.

Djoko, who always appeared with a single dark glass covering
his right eye, like a sea pirate, admitted that they established
the gang to rob passengers on buses.

"Over the past two months, we had six times robbed passengers
on buses, twice in Kebon Melati area, Batu Ceper and four times
in Kalideres," he told The Jakarta Post, adding that he got the
gun from another student at his school called Iwan.

"It was only a game gun but the bullets were original
and I used the gun to scare passengers so that my friends could
easily take their belongings," he said.

According to Djoko, the students spent the money on drugs
liquor and prostitutes.

Police said they would treat the students equal to other
criminals and would be processed according to legal
procedures. --JP