KUALA LUMPUR: Police have arrested a man believed to be the one who assaulted and robbed a woman in a lift at the Taman Mutiara Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Station in Cheras on Thursday.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim said the 26-year-old was detained in Jalan Cheras in Taman Cheras at 8.10pm today.
The arrest, he said, was made by a team of serious crimes division policemen from the Cheras police headquarters.
He said the man would be brought to court to be remanded tomorrow.
Earlier, Mazlan had said police had identified a suspect in the case and had his personal information, including his address.
“Our investigations showed that the suspect had robbed a 24-hour convenience store near the MRT station about 6.30am that day before robbing the victim in the lift,” he told reporters at the city police headquarters.
On Thursday, a 48-year-old woman was punched and kicked several times by the robber in the lift.
In the 6.45am incident, the suspect followed the victim into the lift before assaulting her and running away with her belongings.
Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Rusdi Mohd Isa had said the victim suffered injuries to several parts of her body and swelling on her forehead.
A 57-second closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera recording, which showed the suspect brutally attacking the victim in the lift, has since gone viral.