Alert, Theft At Mosques Often Occurs, Perpetrators Pretend To Pray

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JAKARTA - Various modes of street crime often occur due to opportunities. The perpetrators often take advantage of their time off while being in any location, so that street crimes are difficult to eradicate.

Like the theft that occurred in the Duren Sawit area, East Jakarta. This time, the perpetrator was desperate to steal the cellphone belonging to the An-Najibah Mosque management in the Pondok Kopi area, Duren Sawit.

The perpetrator is known to be a teenager. The theft was also caught on CCTV cameras. The perpetrator carried out the theft while the victim was sleeping heavily on the female shares, inside the mosque.

Tati, the administrator of the An-Najibah Mosque who is also a victim of theft, said that the perpetrator pretended to borrow a sarong from a mosque marbot for the Isha prayer. However, the perpetrators instead targeted the victim's cellphone.

"After calling my son, I fell asleep here, I put my cellphone next to him. Previously he borrowed a sarong, he said he didn't bring it. Then he gave it to my husband, coincidentally my husband was marbot here," Tati told reporters, Wednesday, September 18.

Furthermore, Tati said, from the CCTV footage, it can be seen that the perpetrator walked back and forth while observing the situation. The perpetrator is in the mode of praying to trick the victim.

"I don't know if he's a prayer or not, from the CCTV he had time to come here and then scattered around in women's shares. Maybe I'm still sleeping or not. Not long after he took my cellphone, he kept going," he said.

It is known, three times the theft took place at the mosque. Previously, the mosque administrator had also experienced an incident of losing his laptop and cell phone on the second floor of the recitation room.

"There have been three incidents here. At that time my cellphone was also mentioned above, then the laptop was also lost in the upper room. The perpetrator went inside. This just installed CCTV, the cellphone thief has happened again," he said.

Meanwhile, the case is still under investigation by the Duren Sawit Police.