Viral Action For Truck Drivers On Jalan Marunda Makmur Bekasi, Police Ringkus 5 Youth

Plainclothes police arrested the perpetrator of the criminal act of extortion against a truck driver passing on Marunda Makmur Street/VIA BETWEEN

BEKASI - The Tarumajaya Sector Police, Bekasi Metropolitan Resort, West Java, arrested five youths on suspicion of illegal levies or extortion against truck drivers on Jalan Raya Marunda Makmur, Segara Makmur Village, Tarumajaya District. Tarumajaya Police Chief AKP Akhmadi said the five perpetrators were arrested after receiving a viral video evidence report related to illegal levies. "We have secured five youths with the initials AD (20), K (28), UF (32), H (35), and UWH (37) related to the practice of illegal levies on truck drivers," he said in Bekasi Regency, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, October 11. In the video, said Akhmadi, it can be seen that the five perpetrators were standing in the middle of the road carrying out illegal levies on truck drivers passing on both sides of the road. The activity of illegal levies observed in the viral video occurred last Friday. The video also monitors the distance between one perpetrator and another, even very close, no more than 150 meters. "Their mode of asking the truck driver for money. They were standing in the middle while raising their hands to the drivers who passed by on the road," he said. Officers then went to the scene and immediately arrested the perpetrators. From the hands of the perpetrators of AD, the police secured Rp49,500.00 of the money from illegal levies. From the perpetrator K, evidence was found in the amount of Rp. 120 thousand, UF of Rp. 51 thousand, H of Rp. 92 thousand, and from the hands of the perpetrators of UWH of Rp. 72 thousand. He said that his party immediately secured the five perpetrators of extortion for the truck driver to the Tarumajaya Police Headquarters for further investigation and examination. "We are still asking these five perpetrators for information. As a result of their actions, we will use them with the threat of extortion," he said. Akhmadi hopes that in the future there will be no more illegal levies in his jurisdiction, especially Indonesian President Joko Widodo has also given a stern warning so that extortion against truck drivers passing through the area does not happen again.