Mataram – A crowd of people stormed Sambelia Police station Wednesday to free a man detained for his alleged involvement in illegal logging in East Lombok district. No one was injured in the incident.

West Nusa Tenggara Police spokesman Comr. Tribudi Pangastuti said Thursday the incident occurred several hours after police seized a vehicle carrying nine logs as part of an illegal logging operation.

After determining the logs were undocumented, police seized the vehicle and detained the driver, Nasir, 30, a resident of Paok Montong, East Lombok. The logs are though to have been illegally cut from the protected forest around Mt. Rinjani.

"But at around 6 p.m. about 250 people arrived to protest the arrest," Tribudi said.

The crowd demanded police free the man and the seized logs, which they said were not illegal and were to be used to build a mosque. The crowd eventually stormed the station and released Nasir.