Isuzu Panther KPLP Pekanbaru Prison Service Car Burned, Riau Police Chief General Iqbal: Brains Of Convicts Hurt Because Cell Phones Confiscated

PEKANBARU - The Riau Police revealed that the mastermind behind the burning of the official car of the Head of Prison Security Executive (KPLP), Class II Pekanbaru Prison was a prisoner.

"The brain of the perpetrator with the initials RS, is right behind me, he is a prisoner in prison, we will take it and later an investigation will be carried out, and the next criminal sanction will be carried out," said Riau Police Chief, Inspector General Muhammad Iqbal, accompanied by Riau Police Director General, Kombes Teddy. Ristiawan, Tuesday, January 25.

General Iqbal said, the perpetrators of the hospital contacted a number of perpetrators to carry out their actions from inside the prison by contacting them by telephone.

Meanwhile, the Head of Public Relations of the Riau Police, Kombes Sunarto, revealed that the motive for the burning of the official car of the Pekanbaru Class II KPLP Prison, Efendi Parlindungan Purba, was because the hospital was sick of having his cellphone confiscated.

"The hospital feels hurt and has a grudge against the victim as the Head of the Class II-A Pekanbaru PLP Lapas, because during an internal prison raid in June 2021, where the hospital's cellphone was taken and has not been returned until now," said Sunarto.

Out of heartache, then the hospital contacted his friends to burn the KPLP Class II Pekanbaru Prison car.

It is known that the eight perpetrators who were arrested were BH who was looking for an executor. Then the man with the initials RI and YR who pointed to the location, the perpetrator's brain hospital, FS as an intermediary between the hospital and FF that connected the hospital and BH. Then the man with the initials TT as the executor, and DG as the jockey or the one who gathered the perpetrators.

They are charged with Article 187 of the Criminal Code, which carries a sentence of 12 years in prison, and intentionally arson which can endanger the general public. WIB. Initially, Efendi was awakened by the local RT head.

The head of the RT was the first to inform Efendi that the black Isuzu Panther type official car with Police Number BM 1442 TP, which was parked in front of Efendi's house, caught fire.

Furthermore, Efendi immediately woke up and took a water hose to extinguish the fire. After the fire was extinguished, residents found an aqua bottle containing the remaining pertalite type fuel.