Garut Police Arrest 2 Syndicated Breakers Of Alfamart-Indomaret, 2 Others Fugitive

The police showed evidence of a crime for the theft of minimarket goods in Garut Regency, West Java, Wednesday (24/1/2023). (ANTARA/Feri Purnama)

Garut Resort Police (Polres) uncovered a syndicate of burglars of Alfamart and Indomaret minimarkets that often operate across regions of West Java Province (Jabar) with hundreds of millions of rupiah in material losses.

"So, this is a syndicate that has been successfully uncovered by the Garut Police Satreskrim, and the ranks of the police, and thank God it has been arrested," said Garut Police Chief AKBP Rohman Yonky Dilatha during a press conference on the disclosure of the minimarket burglary syndicate case in Garut Regency, West Java (West Java), Wednesday, January 24, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said that the Garut Police received a report of theft by weighting goods in the minimarket in the Cilawu District, Garut, on Monday, January 8, 2024.

Furthermore, the police conducted an investigation until it was finally discovered the whereabouts of the perpetrators, namely A and Y were arrested separately in Tasikmalaya and Garut.

"There are four perpetrators of this gang, two people we have arrested, two more are still at large and are in pursuit," said the Police Chief.

He said based on the suspect's statement that 10 crime scenes had been carried out in 10 cases spread across Garut, Tasikmalaya, Subang, and Bandung.

The suspect's modus operandi, he said, was to go around looking for minimarkets that were considered deserted, then in the evening the burglary was carried out by breaking into the walls of the shop.

"For the crime scene, there are 10 crime scenes, Alfamart and Indomaret from the information that has been collected that the suspects committed crimes with various tools," he said.

He added that similar cases of theft of goods at minimarkets also occurred in Tarogong Kaler District with the suspect one person who was a shop employee.

The theft was reported on January 17, 2024, which began with minimarket employees reporting theft with lost goods, namely cash from a knife amounting to Rp25 million.

"However, the results of the investigation turned out to be that the perpetrators were insiders, namely employees at the shop," he said.

As a result of his actions, all the suspects were in the Garut Police Headquarters detention cell for further examination and were charged with Article 363 paragraph 1 concerning entering someone else's house and then intending to own goods with a threat of 9 years in prison.