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View all search resultsPolice raid homemade weapons factory in Cipacing
Police raided early on Sunday morning an alleged homemade weapons factory in Cipacing, Sumedang, West Java, in an attempt to curb the circulation of illegal weapons by criminal elements
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olice raided early on Sunday morning an alleged homemade weapons factory in Cipacing, Sumedang, West Java, in an attempt to curb the circulation of illegal weapons by criminal elements.
'We have to take preventive measures to stop the circulation of illegal weapons used in crimes,' the head of crime and violence at Jakarta Police's criminal investigations directorate, Adj.Sr.Comr.Herry Heriawan, said in Jakarta on Sunday as quoted by Antara news agency.
The raid was conducted by a joint force comprising officers from the Jakarta Police, West Java Police and Sumedang police precinct.
Herry said that during the raid, the police confiscated several homemade firearms along with ammunition and gun-making equipment.
The police planned the raid after arresting and questioning Aris Widagdo, the owner of a pistol and bullets that were found in an inn at the Central Java Exhibition Pavilion at the Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII).
The city police officers arrested Aris at the Hotel Citra Papan 2 on Jl. Raya Cipacing in Bandung, West Java, at 8:30 p.m. on Friday. Police later searched the suspect's house in Cicendo, Bandung, and found several bullets.
Aris and a woman friend had stayed the night at the pavilion on Tuesday, where he entrusted a cardboard box to the pavilion's staff before checking out on Thursday.
As Aris never showed up to collect the box, a pavilion staff member, Sugeng Purwanta, asked TMII security guard Dalimin to open the box at 1:30 a.m. on Friday. Inside, they discovered among other items one 9-millimeter pistol; 7.62-caliber bullets; a bag containing a fishing rod; five rubber bullets; five bullet cartridges; 20 bullets of different calibers, and a prototype pistol. (ebf)
