The Problem With Reza Si Penodong, A Junior High School Student: Confused In Making Money, No Parents, Father Dies After Marriage

Reza, a passenger who escaped from junior high school and was arrested by residents/ Photo: IST

JAKARTA - The Duren Sawit Police finally detained Reza (20), a teenager who was a junior high school student who occurred in Ganggagi, Jalan Arabika, Pondok Kopi, Duren Sawit District, East Jakarta, last Wednesday, January 18. The perpetrator is threatened with multiple articles as a result of his actions.

"The perpetrator was charged with Article 363 of the Criminal Code, later we will make a single article of sharp weapons because the victims are minors," said Duren Sawit Police Chief Kompol Martson Marbun confirmed by VOI, Thursday, January 19.

Kompol Marbun explained, from the results of the investigator's examination, the modus operandi of the perpetrators in acting was to target the victims of teenagers coming home from school.

"He wanted to take the cellphones of school children. Because this school student saw a sharp weapon and immediately shouted. The perpetrators were two people, arrested by one person and one other running away," he said.

Due to this incident, 3 victims also made police reports. In the action, the perpetrators often look for cellphone targets.

"The cellphone has been held by the perpetrator. The evidence confiscated contained a sharp weapon, a small knife and a saw, two units," he said.

From the perpetrator's confession, he was desperate to threaten the victim because he wanted to make money. The police will also conduct urine tests on the perpetrators.

"The perpetrator's motive is because he wants to make money. Currently, we are still investigating. If we go there (use drugs) we will tell him later," he said.

Meanwhile, according to the perpetrator's statement, he was forced to do illegal work and violated the law because he did not have money.

"My parents died, I have five children. My father died and my mother remarried. I live withengkong (sports) sir," regretted the perpetrator.

Previously, it was reported that one teenager named Reza (20) was arrested by residents because he was caught holding three junior high school students from school while crossing Gangagi, Jalan Arabika, Pondok Kopi, Duren Sawit District, East Jakarta, Wednesday, January 18, afternoon.

The perpetrator pointed at him when the victim with the initials R, L and A pretended that the perpetrator's sister had lost her cellphone. However, the actions of the perpetrators were discovered by residents when the three victims shouted for help.

"He (the victim) was pointing at him (the victim). The victim was shocked and spontaneously shouted. Then a teenager and young people responded and immediately chased the perpetrator," said one resident with the initials AR at the scene, Wednesday, January 18.