SEREMBAN: Two main suspects were among 21 individuals arrested in connection with the theft of TM Equipment Cards worth approximately RM50,000 in Bandar Springhill, Port Dickson last week.
Negri Sembilan police chief, Datuk Ahmad Dzaffir Mohd Yussof, said that the arrests also involved 15 foreign nationals during the initial raid conducted by the police from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Port Dickson District Police Headquarters, Negri Sembilan Contingent on December 3 at 2.30am.
He said the two main suspects in the case were apprehended with the assistance of members from the Slim River Police Station, Perak, while they were committing the theft of TM Equipment Cards on December 5 (Tuesday) and remanded for four days until today (December 8) at the Mualim District Police Headquarters in Perak.
"Police received a report about the theft on December 2 at 12.10pm. Acting on the information, a team of officers conducted a raid around Section 36, Shah Alam, Selangor, and arrested 15 foreign men aged between 21 - 42 years-old," he said in a statement here today (December 8).
Subsequently, Ahmad Dzaffir said his team made follow-up arrests at three separate locations in Selangor, detaining three men and a woman aged between 38 and 53 years-old on December 5, from 1.30pm to 11.45pm.
He said all the local suspects were remanded for four days until tomorrow (December 9), while the 15 foreign nationals will be remanded until December 20 (Wednesday).
Ahmad Dzaffir stated that the arrest of all the suspects resolved five cases of TM Equipment Card theft in Negri Sembilan and one case in Perak, and the cases are being investigated under Section 379 of the Penal Code. — Bernama