The Perpetrator Of The Theft Of Ambulance Car Tires In Bengkulu Arrested When He Wanted To Sell The Proceeds

The suspect in the theft of an ambulance tire at the Curup Health Center was arrested by the Rejang Lebong Police, Bengkulu, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. ANTARA/Nur Muhammad's photo.

BENGKULU - Rejang Lebong Resort Police (Polres) officers, Bengkulu Police, arrested the suspect in the theft of four ambulance tires that occurred in the area on December 29, 2021.

Head of Criminal Investigation Unit AKP Sampson Sosa Hutapea at the Rejang Lebong Police Headquarters, Wednesday, January 5, said the suspect arrested was DM (65) a resident of Karang Anyar Village, East Curup District. The suspect was arrested while trying to sell the stolen tires and wheels in Kepahiang Regency.

"This suspect was arrested in Kepahiang Regency when he was about to sell the stolen ambulance tires on Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at around 11.00 WIB. We have followed this suspect before and when we were about to sell the stolen goods, we immediately arrested him," he said as quoted by Antara. He explained, the theft of the BD 9149 KY ambulance car tire belonging to the Curup Health Center which was caught on CCTV and went viral on social media was carried out by the suspect alone by entering the health center yard and then dismantling four ambulance tires with a jack and propping them up using wooden blocks. In addition to capturing the suspect, who already has eight children, he said, the officers also managed to secure a number of evidences of four tires and their wheels, wheel locks, a jack and one unit of the four-wheeled Toyota Kijang brand plate B 1247 TSA which was used by the suspect. while carrying out the action."The four tires of this ambulance he will sell it for Rp. 1 million, the money according to the suspect is for his son's medical expenses," added Sampson. For his actions, the suspect DM, who was a recidivist in the 2006 forest encroachment case, was snared by investigators with a violation of Article 363 of the Criminal Code paragraph 5 with a threat of up to 7 years in prison. pressed for economic needs and for medical expenses for their children. Previously, the theft of vehicle tires happened to an ambulance belonging to the Curup Health Center, Rejang Lebong Regency, which occurred on Wednesday morning (29/12) which is estimated to have occurred around 02.00-04.00 WIB. This BD 9149 KY plate went viral on social media after the image of this car parked while four of its tires were gone.