Two caught in C. Java for robbery, murder
Two caught in C. Java for robbery, murder
JAKARTA (JP): South Jakarta detectives, in cooperation with Central Java officers, have arrested two construction workers in connection with Monday's robbery and killing of a maid in Jagakarsa.
Yatno, alias Bagong, 30, was arrested at this home in Wonogiri on Wednesday and Paino, 26, was picked up on Thursday in Sukohardjo.
"They have just arrived here this morning," South Jakarta police chief Lt. Col. SY Wenas told reporters here yesterday.
The two men are charged with robbery and the killing of a 20- year-old maid, Alfiati, alias Sihal.
The maid was found dead in a well near her employer's house on Jl. H. Montong 36 at Ciganjur, one day after the incident.
The maid's body, found with the head embedded in the sediment at the bottom of the 13-meter-deep, 80-centimeter-in-diameter well, was retrieved by the police and military personnel.
"In the beginning, we thought that the maid was involved in the robbery plot and had escaped with the other suspects," Wenas said.
The two had also dumped Putri Komalasari, the eight-year-old daughter of the owner of the house, into the same well.
She was saved by her elder sister, Muthia Ayu Herlianti, 13, who heard her screaming upon her arrival home from school.
Putri was taken from the well by neighbors one day before the maid was found dead there.
"Putri told us that the robbery and killing were committed by two men, one of whom was Bagong, a construction worker who had been recently hired by her parents to build a gate at their house," said the Jagakarsa police subprecinct chief, Capt. Agus Soewartiono.
"We then assigned four detectives to see if the suspects had fled to Central Java," Agus said.
Speaking with reporters, Bagong said he plotted the crime.
"As we knew that the two people would identify us to the police, we strangled the maid and dumped her in the well," Bagong said.
"We tried to do the same with the little girl, but she was still crying when we threw her into the well," Paino said. (bsr)