Brawl Between Two Gangster Groups In Tangerang Regency, Police Move Quickly To Arrest Perpetrators

TANGERANG - Two gangster groups in the Tangerang Regency area carried out attacks against each other. As a result, one person with the initials MA (19) suffered serious injuries to his back after being hit by a sharp weapon.

"The victim is a gangster member who suffered serious injuries to his back due to being hit by a sharp weapon," said Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Tangerang Police, Kompol Arief Nazaruddin Yusuf in his statement, Saturday, May 18.

Arief explained that the incident started when two groups of gangsters named Nigeria 54 and Staytone 34 promised through social media to fight in the Balaraja area, Tangerang Regency.

After it was agreed, the two groups went to what was done to carry out the brawl. Then they attacked each other until it finally resulted in one person being seriously injured.

"(Then) the perpetrator immediately left the scene. However, from this incident we were able to detect the whereabouts of the perpetrators. In addition, we also know the roles of the gangsters," he said.

Furthermore, his party immediately moved and arrested the perpetrators of the stabbing. His party managed to apprehend three organizations for the incident.

"From the handling of this case, officers arrested three perpetrators with the initials R (18) MR, (22) RK (22)," he said.

For their actions, they were named suspects and charged with Article 170 of the Criminal Code and/or Article 351 of the Criminal Code or Article 184 of the Criminal Code, Article 160 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 55 of the Criminal Code with a penalty of 15 years in prison.