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Teenagers arrested for alleged taxi robbery
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A group of teenagers have been arrested for reportedly trying to rob a taxi driver named Muhammad Syaiful in the early hours of Jan. 12 in Pondok Aren, South Tangerang. (JP/Seto Wardhana.)
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group of teenagers have been arrested for reportedly trying to rob a taxi driver named Muhammad Syaiful in the early hours of Jan. 12 in Pondok Aren, South Tangerang.
The five suspects pretended to be taxi passengers.
“The five suspects - three men and two women - stopped Syaiful’s taxi and asked to be transported to Jombang Station in Ciputat, South Tangerang,” said South Tangerang Police chief Adj. Comr. Ahmad Alexander Yurikho in a press release on Sunday.
Yurikho said the two women passengers got out of the taxi at Jombang Station while the three men stayed and asked Syaiful to continue the journey.
They ordered the taxi to stop on Jl. Graha Raya in Pondok Aren and hit the driver with stones on the way.
Fortunately, Brig. Yamin of the Pondok Aren Police was driving through the location and immediately arrested one of the men, but the other two suspects managed to run away.
“They could not take the car because none of them can drive,” said Yurikho.
The police said one of the suspects planned the robbery to pay for his upcoming wedding.
The police seized evidence including the victim’s medical examination result, a piece of stone, a Toyota Vios car, the victim’s blood-stained clothes and the suspects' clothes.
The other four suspects were arrested later. (gis)
