JAKARTA - The East Jakarta Metro Police have arrested a gang of thieves of goods carried by expedition trucks or commonly known as jumping squirrels, who often disturb motorists in the area.
"It took less than 24 hours for the four suspects to be arrested. They are PN, EDO, AN and DA," said East Jakarta Police Chief Kombes Arie Ardian as quoted by Antara, Wednesday, November 25.
The gang's action was captured by an amateur video of residents moving metal plates from one of the trucks passing through Jalan Raya Bekasi, Cakung, on Friday, November 20.
In the video recording about a minute long circulating on social media, it appears that a gang of squirrels divides their duties while looting metal plates from passing trucks.
Two of the perpetrators climbed the back of the truck to unload the iron luggage packed in sacks, while the other two perpetrators caught the stolen goods from the motorbike.
The jumping squirrel gang attracted the attention of road users because it was carried out during the day when there was a traffic jam.
Arie said that armed with video recordings the police managed to track down the jumping squirrel gang and managed to arrest the perpetrators in the East Jakarta area. "We have arrested the perpetrator along with hundreds of kilograms of evidence in the form of iron," said Arie.
The perpetrators admitted that this was not the first time they had done this. "They have repeatedly acted in a number of areas," he said.
The police are still looking for other perpetrators who were involved in the collection of the stolen goods. The police suspects charged them with Article 363 KHUP concerning theft.
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