Police Officially Assign 12 Suspects To The Destruction Of Candipuro Police

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JAKARTA - After the destruction of Candipuro Police Station south Lampung police some time ago, investigators of the South Lampung Police Criminal Reserse Unit have raised the status of the Investigation into the Investigation. Police have also set from 10 suspects to 12 suspects.

Lampung Police Chief Zahwani Pandra Arsyad said the development of investigations and investigations related to the destruction of Candipuro mapolsek. He said that from the results of additional examinations and the title of the case conducted on Friday, May 21, investigators determined two more people as suspects.

"So the number that has been determined as a suspect by investigators to this day as many as 12 suspects," he said in a written statement, Sunday, May 23.

Pandra said the two new suspects in question were RH and MS. Both of whom originally from the investigation did not have sufficient evidence, after additional examination of witnesses and a re-case was conducted, against the two men.

"Fulfilled the criminal element based on 2 sufficient evidence tools, then the status was raised to the level of investigation and determined as a suspect with suspicion article 170 kuhpidana and carried out detention in the south Lampung Police station," he said.

Previously, investigators of the South Lampung Police Criminal Reserse Unit determined 10 suspects in the case of destruction and arson of Mapolsek Candipuro. Police said one in ten suspects in the burning of Candipuro Police Station, South Lampung, with the initials DK, was the village chief. He is referred to as one of the combustion incinerators.

"Initials DK, Village Head in Beringin Kencana Village. He is one of the Village Heads among 14 villages in Candipuro Subdistrict," said Lampung Police Chief Zahwani Pandra Arsyad, Saturday, May 22.

Based on the results of the investigation, this DK suspect acted as the initiator. Because, he gathered a mass to come to candipuro police station.

"He (DK) is the initiator to gather mass to equally lead to the Police Department," he said.

In fact, pandra continued, DK also invites people to crowd. In fact, the current condition during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Thus, with its action it can increase the potential spread or transmission of COVID-19.

"He just did invite people to gather in the middle of the pandemic," said Pandra.