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Men mugged with lighter in Bekasi
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A CCTV recording made at a minimarket in Bekasi, West Java, shows a robber in action in 2015. (kompas.com/ Jessi Carina )
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wo mugging attempts have occurred in Greater Jakarta within a week, with the latest conducted by an apparent street busker on Saturday, according to police.
Bekasi Police spokeswoman Erna Ruswing said on Sunday that a street busker, identified only as OAA, 28, was arrested after he allegedly attempted to rob Arif, 26, and Ade, 25, at gunpoint in the Pekayon subdistrict, Bekasi. Later the police found out that the gun was a lighter shaped like a gun.
“He used the lighter to scare his targets,” Erna said.
Arif and Ade stopped their motorcycle at a traffic light at about 2:30 p.m, when a man approached and pointed the gun-shaped lighter at their faces. The assailant then asked the two men to bring him to the East Bekasi toll road. Ade, who was driving the motorcycle, said he felt threatened and decided to carry the street busker with him.
Ade said he then intentionally dropped the motorcycle and screamed for help. The panicked hijacker tried to escape but was quickly arrested by police from a post nearby.
“There was also a kitchen knife and a gun-shaped lighter in [a confiscated] bag,” Erna said as quoted by kompas.com.
In a recent incident on June 20, another woman claimed that she was mugged at a gunpoint at Mega Glodok Kemayoran Mall in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta. It was later found out that the robber used a toy gun. (hol)
