KUALA LUMPUR: Police have arrested a 26-year-old man who violated his restricted residence order and went on a nine-day armed robbery spree in the city.
City CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Ku Chin Wah said the man had been banished to Benut in Pontian, Johor on Oct 7 under the Prevention of Crime Act 1959.
He had been detained for his involvement in a gang and several previous robberies.
Five days later, he escaped from the town and on Nov 5, committed the first of seven robberies in Bangsar armed with a parang.
"He robbed a taxi driver of his tax and then a Nepali on the same day," SAC Ku said at a press conference at the police headquarters here.
On Nov 8, the taxi-driving robber robbed a student in Batu Caves who had hailed his cab.
On Nov 11, he stopped his taxi and robbed a French woman in Bangsar who was walking by the roadside.
On the same day, he used the taxi to block a Mercedes Benz. He pulled the driver out and took the car.
He tried but failed to rob an Australian national outside his home in Bukit Persekutuan.
He attacked three other people before his crime rampage ended on Nov 13 when the police finally tracked down and nabbed him.
SAC Ku said the Pontian police had reported his disappearance the day he went missing.
The man is now facing a total of 252 years in jail for violating his restricted residence order, seven counts of armed robbery and two counts of attempted.
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