Semarang Polrestabes Set 5 Suspects In Cases Of Sending Hundreds Of Dogs To Sragen
SEMARANG - Police have named five suspects in the case of sending hundreds of dogs to Sragen Regency which was thwarted by the Semarang Police, Central Java.Semarang Police Chief Kombes Irwan Anwar said that one of the five suspects ordered hundreds of dogs that were planned to be consumed.Suspect DH, a resident of Gemolong, Sragen Regency, has ordered hundreds of dogs several times."This suspect is the person who ordered it, several times," he said in Semarang, Antara, Monday, January 8.Meanwhile, the other four suspects were crew members of trucks carrying hundreds of dogs whose roles helped. According to the perpetrator's statement, continued Irwan, hundreds of dogs were imported from the Subang area, West Java. Of the 226 dogs transported by the truck, 12 of them were dead."We sent the dead sample to Airlangga University for further investigation," he said.The surviving dogs were then placed in one of the shelters in Semarang City.The suspects were subsequently charged with Law Number 41 of 2014 concerning Animal Husbandry and Health.Previously, the police secured a truck carrying hundreds of dogs suspected of without official documents while crossing the Kalikangkung Toll Gate, Semarang, Central Java, Saturday night (6/1).
The action began with reports of animal protection activists stopping trucks carrying 226 dogs of various types from the west.