Stealing is always wrong, but stealing something as essential to our lives as the fiber optic cable we need to keep us plugged into the information superhighway seems especially… evil.
Police recently arrested a whopping 39 suspects in a recent rash of fiber optic cable thefts throughout Jakarta.
Krishna Murti, director of the Public Crimes Investigation Unit at the Jakarta Police, said that cable theft case first came to light after a construction company, PT Banyu Biru, received an order from PT Telekom Indonesia to excavate some damaged optic cable located in a number of places including Bintaro, Cikini and Pekayon.
The company assigned a number of workers to the excavation job, including the 39 suspects. They were supposed to bring the wire in to Telkom’s warehouse in Cilincing for repair.
“But the perpetrators instead made off with the cable stashing it under the hoods of their trucks and behind their seats,” Krishna told reporters today as quoted by Tribunnews.
During the arrest, police seized 6 axe cutting tools, 5 hacksaws, 11 large-sized trucks and some wires that had been cut as evidence.
