After Deceiving The Mode Of Installing A Work Application, This Perpetrator Stole The Victim's Cellphone And Sold It To The Street Vendors In Kebayoran Lama

Taman Sari Metro Police Chief AKBP Rohman Yonky Dilatha (ANTARA/HO-Humas West Jakarta Metro Police)

JAKARTA - The Taman Sari Metro Sector Police arrested the reported fraud case with the mode of offering the installation of job vacancies applications through the Facebook social media network with the initials HTW (42). In their deception, HTW also stole the victim's cellphone (HP).

The Head of Polsek Metro Taman Sari AKBP Rohman Yonky Dilatha said that in this case his party had received six reports over the last three months (January to March 2022).

"After talking, the perpetrator borrowed the victim's cellphone with the reason that he wanted to install a job application, after being careless, the perpetrator took the victim's cellphone," Yonky said in his statement in Jakarta, Antara, Sunday, March 20.

In addition to the six police reports, according to Yongky, HTW (42) has also acted 11 times with a similar case in the Lokasari THR area, Taman Sari I, West Jakarta. However, none of the victims made a police report.

The reported party was finally arrested after his action was introduced through Facebook to the victim, intending to carry out a fraud by promising to meet in the vicinity of the Mangga Besar area, Taman Sari, West Jakarta, on Saturday, was detected by the police.

Because the Taman Sari Metro Police had received a fraud case with a similar mode, then the Taman Sari Metro Police Strike Team, under the leadership of the AKP Criminal Investigation Unit, Roland Olaf Ferdinand, moved to investigate and succeeded in arresting the perpetrators not far from the meeting location, around the THR Lokasari Taman Sari area. West Jakarta.

Roland said after an examination of the reported party, personnel from the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Taman Sari Police received information that the reported party admitted that they had taken away the victim's cellphone from January-March 2022.

The cellphones brought in January included the Oppo, Xiaomi and Samsung types, the A5, 4x, and A31F. Then in February, it was reported that the cellphones were stolen, including the Xiaomi, Advan, Oppo, Vivo, Note, Nasa, A5S, F1 and Y91 brands. Meanwhile, in March 2022, it was reported that the victims' cellphones from the Vivo and Oppo brands Y91 and A11 were reported.

"From his statement, the perpetrator (reported) sold the cellphone from the crime at a street vendor in the Kebayoran Lama area, South Jakarta," he said.

For further investigation, the police imposed Article 378 of the Criminal Code (KUHP) regarding the crime of fraud.