The disclosure was made on Friday, April 2, 2021 at around 15.00 WIB.
The chronology, on Friday 2 April 2021, members of the Banyuwangi Police Reskrim carried out a raid on the home industry (home production) of illegal modified firearms (senpi).
"Banyuwangi Police secured one suspect who acted as the maker of the assembled senpi," said Head of Public Relations of the East Java Regional Police, Kombes Pol Gatot Repli Handoko, Saturday (10/4/2021) afternoon.
From this disclosure, the East Java Regional Police's General Criminal Investigation Directorate (Ditreskrimum) will back up the full disclosure of firearms (senpi) currently being handled by the Banyuwangi Police.
"Later it will be fully backed up by the East Java Regional Police Directorate General of Criminal Investigation," he added.
From the raid, members of the Criminal Investigation Unit secured one suspect, the initials NM, (51). The suspect was finally brought to the police for questioning and underwent an investigation and investigation process.
The suspect himself is suspected of having committed a criminal act of producing, receiving, obtaining, surrendering, carrying, hiding, using or removing from Indonesia firearms, ammunition, explosives as referred to in Article 1 Paragraph (1) of the Emergency Law No.12 of 1951.
From the results of the development and investigation process carried out on the first suspect, the police finally returned to secure other suspects including, IPW (48), a resident of Gerokgak District, Buleleng Regency, Bali, AW (33), a resident of Wongsorejo District, Banyuwangi Regency and one other suspect with the initials CS ( 66) resident of Beji Kota Subdistrict, Depok, West Java.
"Initially members secured one suspect, from re-arresting three other suspects," explained Kombes Pol Arman Asmara, Banyuwangi Police Chief.
From the confession of the suspect NM, he played a role as a maker of modified firearms, that he learned to make weapons by himself which he learned through the internet. In addition to acting as a penny maker, he is also an intermediary for the sales of cents.
From the results of this disclosure, the police did not only secure the suspects. Also securing evidence including, one M-16 modif type, one lee-enfield modif type, one single M-16 modif senpi, two M-16 magazines, three SS1 magazines, 53 cis 22 MM caliber ammunition, 40 ammunition. sharp caliber 7.62 MM, 160 cis projectiles, three silencers and other evidence including a senpi maker.
"We secure this disclosure of several pieces of evidence and ammunition from the hands of the suspects," he said.
Meanwhile, the IPW suspect, as the buyer of the NM suspect, the police secured evidence including, one modified M-16 type rifle, one rifle Rev. codif cis 22 MM caliber, one FN-Broning type senpi, one cis gun caliber 22 MM long. as well as 111 ammunition caliber 5.55 MM, caliber 9 MM and cis caliber 22 MN and cis caliber 22 MM, as well as two M-16 magazines and FN-Broning magazines.
Meanwhile, from the hands of the suspect AW, who acted as a supplier or seller of 50 ammunition of 9 MM caliber, which was confiscated from the suspect, NM. Meanwhile, the CS suspect acted as the seller of a cis 22 MM caliber long barrel which was confiscated from the IPW suspect.
From this disclosure, the four suspects will be charged under Article 1 Paragraph (1) of the Emergency Law Number 12 of 1951, with the threat of death penalty or life imprisonment or imprisonment of up to 20 years imprisonment.
