Police Arrest Specialist Thief HP Tourists In Gili Trawangan

Member of the North Lombok Police, West Nusa Tenggara secured a suspected specialist in mobile phone theft (HP) tourists in Gili Trawangan, Gili Indah Village, Pemenang District, which has damaged the image of tourism in the local area.

"The perpetrator has the initials MR (25) from Praya Barat District, Central Lombok Regency, who works as a corn trader in Gili Trawangan," said North Lombok Police Chief AKBP I Wayan Sudarmanta as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 17.

The perpetrator is the executor in the case of a mobile phone thief and is a specialist in theft of cellphones belonging to foreign nationals (WNA) or tourists in Gili Trawangan.

"The alleged perpetrator is also a DPO at the Central Lombok Police in the case of boat theft," he said.

The theft case occurred when victim Rafael Thomas (28) from Germany and his girlfriend put their cellphone and belongings in a private bag on the beach while swimming at Gili Trawangan Beach, Tuesday (16/5)

"After about 10 minutes, the victim's belongings were no longer in place or disappeared," he said.

Furthermore, the victim reported to the Pam Obvit Police Post in Gili Trawangan that there had been a loss of cellphones and personal belongings.

For this incident, the officers immediately responded quickly by means of tracking using the victim's lost iPhone icloud to find out the position of the missing cellphone.

After tracking using the iPhone cycloud account, officers found out that the victim's cellphone was still in Gili Trawangan.

Then the Pemenang Police and Gili Indah Sub-Sector Police and the victim headed to the tracking location using the iPhone account icloud which was located in the boarding house next to the Gili Trawangan soccer field.

"Arriving at the tracking location, a check was carried out in the room of the alleged MR perpetrator and found 5 types of cellphones with different brands," he said.

The perpetrator was secured along with evidence found in the form of 1 charger and headset, 1 eyeglass, Rp1 million in cash and five HP, including two cellphones belonging to the victim, namely the iPhone 12 and iPhone 11 brands. and three cellphones are still being secured at the Winner Police for further investigation and development of cases.

"Given that the alleged perpetrator MR is a DPO (People Search List) of the Central Lombok Police, the handling of the case will be coordinated with the Central Lombok Police Criminal Investigation Unit," he said.