Wild, Wild West in a Tondano Court

Dissatisfied with a court verdict, a police chief takes the judge hostage and shoots him. Violence in the courtroom hits another high while law enforcers hit rock bottom.

January 23, 2001

A scene right out of a Wild West movie took place at the Tondano State Court, Minahasa in North Sulawesi. At the trial on Monday last week, Judge Johny Marthen Telew, 48, had just issued his verdict on the pre-trial case of Deitje Clara Kaunang versus Tomohon Sector Police, Minahasa. She was suing the police for treating her arbitrarily by detaining her for a manpower scam longer than the law permits. The decision? The judge ruled for the plai

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