JAKARTA - The cash on-site payment method (Cash On Celivery/COD) became the modus operandi of two suspects with the initials DP and IG to steal the victim's motorbike and cellphone with the initials RM in the South Tugu area, Koja, North Jakarta.
The Head of the Koja Sector Police, Kompol Abdul Rasyid, said that the two suspects had been arrested on Wednesday, July 21.
"The suspect DP agreed to buy the victim's cellphone but in COD so the victim agreed. However, after meeting, DP and his IG partner turned out to have planned to take the victim's belongings at the crime scene," said Rasyid at the Koja Police Headquarters, North Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Friday, 23 July.
Not only did they snatch a cell phone that the victim wanted to sell, the suspects also grabbed a motorcycle and another cell phone that he was carrying before running away.
The victim was unable to move when his belongings were forcibly taken by the suspect because he was threatened with being stabbed with a wooden sickle and pointed at a gun-like object which turned out to be just a match.
"The suspect did prepare a sickle and matches that resembled a gun when the victim and the perpetrators met," said Rasyid.
After the suspects took RM's belongings, he immediately reported the case to the Koja Police Headquarters.
The Koja Police Criminal Investigation Unit immediately investigated the report and looked for suspects based on the characteristics of the perpetrators mentioned by the victim.
On Wednesday, July 21, the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Koja Police managed to find the two suspects along with the victim's belongings, some of which had been pawned.
The two suspects were arrested and immediately taken to the Koja Police Headquarters for further investigation.
From the results of the examination of the two suspects, they admitted that they had committed acts with this mode more than five times.
Because of his actions, the police imposed Article 365 paragraph (1) 2e in the Criminal Code, which carries a maximum prison sentence of nine years.
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