Police Arrest 3 More Cremators In Maros

DOK ANTARA

MAKASSAR - The South Sulawesi (Sulsel) Regional Police arrested three more perpetrators of the arsonist Muh Rian Latif (21). This arrest was the result of the development of two people who were previously arrested by the police, bringing the total perpetrators to five people.

"All the perpetrators involved have been arrested. Yesterday, I conveyed that two perpetrators were arrested, and today we have picked up the main perpetrator this morning, now on our way to Makassar," said Head of Public Relations of the South Sulawesi Police, Kombes E Zulpan, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, 16 June.

The South Sulawesi Police Resmob team initially arrested two suspected perpetrators on Tuesday, June 15 at a location in Makassar. It was further developed, and three more people were arrested, one of whom was taken into custody while he was in the area.

"In Makassar there are two people, and today there are three people who were arrested, one of them was secured in Bulukumba Regency. So in total there are five perpetrators," said Kombes Zulpan.

Regarding the status of the five perpetrators, whether they have been designated as suspects, he said, it has been confirmed because they have been involved in the sadistic planned murder.

"The status of all of these people are suspects because they are all involved. Evidence and other information will be submitted by the Regional Police Chief immediately upon release tomorrow, including the motive," said Zulpan.

Previously, a burned body was found by a truck driver named Dudi, after passing through Bukit Kemiri, Tompoladang, Padaelo Village, Mallawa District, Maros Regency, South Sulawesi on Friday, June 11 in the morning.

At the beginning of the incident, they only saw that there was a fire on the side of the road, and thought that only piles of garbage were burned. After inspection, it turned out that the human body was on fire, then it was reported to local residents, then handled by the Mallawa Maros Police.

The crime scene was then processed by the Forensic Laboratory of the South Sulawesi Regional Police Biddokes and took DNA samples from the victims, as well as distributing the victim's sketches. Later his identity was revealed to be 21-year-old Muh Rian Latif from Gowa Regency.

This case was then handled by the Resmob Team of the South Sulawesi Police by collecting information and witnesses assisted by the Maros Police, until finally they managed to arrest the two perpetrators. After being developed into five actors.

The family has taken the victim's body to be buried in a public cemetery, Jalan Seto, Palantikan, Sungguminasa, Gowa. The victim's mother, Farida Daeng Simba, said that her son had not come home for several days, after being invited by a friend to visit the tourist attraction Malino since Tuesday, June 8. He hopes the perpetrators will be severely punished.

"The death penalty. That's a proper punishment for the perpetrators to kill my son so sadistically," he said while taking his son's body at the South Sulawesi Regional Police Biddokes Office, Jalan Kumala, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Tuesday (15/6).