Couple Of Lovers Who Break Into ATM Machines In Krian Sidoarjo Arrested By Police, In Debt For Online Gambling

SIDOARJO - Sidoarjo Police Team, East Java arrested a couple with the initials DAS and his girlfriend MR because they were breaking into an ATM machine safe in the Krian area, Sidoarjo.

Sidoarjo Police Chief Kombes Kusumo Wahyu Bintoro said the watershed that was not working claimed to be in debt online (pinjol) around Rp. 20 million.

"The need for money was used by the man from Gondang, Bojonegoro, to play online gambling," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, October 19.

He said, because he was being chased by debt bills on the network, DAS had the idea to break into the ATM machine safe which he learned from YouTube, namely by using a complete blender welding tube and the regulator and CCTV cameras inside the ATM room in black spray paint.

"In carrying out the action, the DAS perpetrator invited MR's girlfriend to oversee the area around the crime scene," said the Sidoarjo Police Chief.

The two suspects admitted that they had attempted to break into the first ATM machine twice in Ploso Jombang and the second in Krian Sidoarjo.

"However, the two target locations failed. In the second location, residents and members of the Krian Police were finally arrested who were on patrol," he said.

The suspect was charged with Article 363 paragraph 1 to 4, 5 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 53 of the Criminal Code concerning Attempted theft with Weighting, which carries a sentence of 7 years in prison.