Police Story

Gang of snatch thieves comprising students arrested
By STEPHEN THEN
MIRI: Police have uncovered a gang of lower secondary school students who are snatch thieves and house-breaking “experts”.
The gang, aged between 13 and 15, calls itself the Kumpulan Elias Ayah and police suspect that it has committed at least 31 cases of snatch theft and house-breaking since Jan 1.
Police arrested eight members of the gang, all Form One to Form Three students, early Monday and late on Sunday following intensive investigation after receiving tip-offs from the public.
Miri OCPD Asst Comm Abang Abdillah Abang Othman said yesterday police believed they had solved 15 cases of snatch thefts following the arrest of the eight and identified three others who are still at large.
“We recovered handphones, watches, wallets, cash, computers, fax machines, audio sets and other items. Initial probes showed that this group may also be connected to gangs of school dropouts,” he said.
ACP Abdillah said police had reason to believe that the eight students were from broken homes

Police seize RM5.8m and arrest 19 after raid
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have seized RM5.8mil cash and 67kg of syabu from a house used as a drug processing lab in Klang
Ninteen people, including a woman, were arrested.
This success on Sunday came less than 48 hours after the Narcotics Crime Investigating Department busted a syabu producing laboratory and arrested more than 30 people.
NCID director Comm Datuk Abang Abdul Wahap Abang Julai said police found RM5.8mil stashed inside the single storey house which was raided.
"This if by far the largest ever syabu processing lab that we have busted and we believe that this syndicate has dealings with the syndicates busted a day ago by our men in Johor," he added.

Police investigating allegations businessman threatened two security guards
KOTA KINABALU: Police are investigating an allegation that a prominent Sabah businessman threatened two security guard at a new shopping complex here five-days ago.
The businessman, who is a Datuk, is alleged to have threatened to shoot the two guards at the Warisan Square Shopping Complex here after the duo asked him to park his car properly.
Kota Kinabalu City deputy chief Rowell Marong said on Monday that investigations were but no arrest or statements had been recorded from the suspect.
Asked if they had seized the pistol from the accused, Rowell, who is acting city police chief, said that he will be seeking the advise of his superior officer before taking the next step.
In the 10.30am incident on April 4, one of the shopping complex security guard Erwan Raodi and a colleague claimed that they approached the Datuk requesting him to park his Mercedez Benz properly.
However, the businessmen opened his hand pouch that purportedly contained two pistols and in a loud voice said: "which one of you fellows want me to put into your head."
He also claimed to be a police officer and could get them arrested.
The businessman, a Sarawakian and long time resident in Sabah, got back into his car and left, Erwan told a press conference facilitated by his boss Nizam Lee.
Erwan, who claimed that he was shaken by the whole incident, lodged a police report immediately.

IGP wants more stations in populated areas
SUBANG JAYA: There are plans to have more than one police station in places with high population, Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said.
He said this was among the suggestions in the force's five-year plan that was recently introduced.
“Then more investigation officers can be placed there. Presently, these officers are stationed at district police headquarters,” he said at a dinner to commemorate 200 Years of Police last night.
Musa also said that the plan was for every police station in the highly populated areas to have between 150 and 200 police personnel.
Some procedures rules would also be changed including allowing reports to be lodged at all stations, he said. Presently, people can only lodge reports at the stations in the areas where the incident had happened.