JAKARTA – Dozens of teenage boys were detained by the Precision Team of the Jakarta Metro Police together with the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Tanah Abang Metro Police in the Senayan area, Central Jakarta, for being desperate to hold a sahur on-the-road (SOTR), Sunday, April 24.
From the hands of the perpetrators, the police secured several sharp weapons, including sickles and one teenager who tested positive for drugs. Tanah Abang Metro Police, Chief AKBP Harris Kurniawan, confirmed that dozens of teenagers were arrested. The teenager is known to want to do SOTR around the area in Jakarta.
"We took them into custody because when the officers approached there was a teenager who ran away and threw away a sharp weapon type of sickle as big as two blades", said AKBP Harris when contacted by reporters, Monday, April 25.
Harris said that of the dozens of teenagers who were arrested, two women were also arrested.
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"We have also checked the urine, it turns out that one of them was positive for using methamphetamine drugs", he said.
The number of juveniles arrested reached 29 people. From the identity that we have secured, the teenagers are residents of West Jakarta, South Jakarta, and Tangerang.
"We might send them home today. We ask them to make an agreement on stamp duty that they will not do SOTR again and their parents are obliged to pick them up", he said.
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