Thieves hit Guess counter

Thieves hit Guess counter

JAKARTA: Thieves ransacked a Guess watches counter on the
first floor of the Kelapa Gading Mall in North Jakarta on Monday
morning, and escaped with hundreds of wrist watches.

Total losses amounted to more than Rp 500 million.

A counter employee reporting for work at 9 a.m. found that the
top of the glass counter had been broken, and the side windows
smashed.

Hundreds of watches on show in the counter's display cases had
been stolen.

The prices of Guess watches range from between US$ 27 (about
232,000) and $225, according to the Guess homepage.

"This is the second robbery of the counter over the past
several months," said Hendra Pratomo of the Guess center's
general affairs department.

Hendra reported the case to Jakarta Police Headquarters. He
said he was impatient with the slow progress being made by the
Kelapa Gading police subprecinct in investigating the earlier
robbery. --JP.