Hit, Choke And Extort Women's Money

PADANG - The Padang City Police (Polresta), West Sumatra (West Sumatra) revealed a case of alleged theft accompanied by violence with the mode of giving a car ride to a potential victim. One perpetrator with the initials AS (37) was arrested by officers in Kurao Village, Nanggalo District, Padang City.

"From our examination of the perpetrators, it has been revealed that so far there are eight residents who have become victims," said Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Padang Police Commissioner Rico Fernanda in Padang, Antara, Thursday, February 10.

The perpetrators who acted as many as three people initially went around in a car looking for potential victims. After getting a potential victim, one of the perpetrators will come down to the victim and pretend to know him. Then offered to take the victim home.

After the victim got into the car, then the perpetrators launched their actions by committing violence, as well as threatening the victim to hand over the money and jewelry they had.

As experienced by one of the victims of ER on June 16, 2021, at the Brimob intersection.

Not only looting money and gold jewelry, the perpetrators also beat and strangled the victim while in the car. After successfully seizing money and valuable objects, the perpetrators just dropped the victim on the side of the road.

Rico said of the eight cases admitted by US perpetrators, seven of the victims were women. While the other one is an elderly man (elderly).

"It is suspected that the perpetrators did target women as the main target," he said.

In addition, it was also revealed that the usual route taken by the perpetrators to take action was from the Freshwater area to the border area of Padang City and Padangpariaman Regency

Armed with reports from victims and investigations in the field, finally officers under the leadership of the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Padang Police, Ipda Ori Friliansa, managed to pocket the identity of one of the perpetrators, namely AS and immediately arrested him last Wednesday night.

Currently, the US has the status as a suspect in a criminal act of theft accompanied by violence and has been languishing in a detention cell at the Padang Police. On the other hand, the police appealed to the public to remain vigilant and cautious about theft, which has various modes of crime.