MCO violations: Police arrest 28, some gambling, drinking

PETALING JAYA: A group of suspected of gambling as well as three people who were drinking in public were among 28 arrested in Petaling Jaya for defying the movement control order (MCO).

"All of them were arrested between 9.40am on Monday (April 21) and 12.15am on Tuesday (April 22)," said Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Nik Ezanee Mohd Faisal.

He also said all those arrested, including 10 foreigners, did not have valid reasons to be outdoors.

ACP Nik Ezanee said among those arrested was a 41-year-old man who was caught drinking on Jalan Teratai, PJU 6/A Kg Kayu Ara around 4.30pm on April 21.

Police also arrested two other men, aged 26 and 33, doing the same thing near a row of shophouses on Jalan 10/4C in Damansara Damai.

Meanwhile, a group of five men and two women, aged 22 to 36, were found crowding a table outside an apartment building in Ara Damansara where they were believed to have been gambling around 11pm the same day.

Later around 12.15am, police found three men, aged 17 to 28, gathered near a staircase outside an apartment block in Section 8, Kota Damansara but did not have a valid excuse for doing so.

All those arrested were being investigated for defying the MCO, which was imposed to stem the transmission of Covid-19.

ACP Nik Ezanee warned the public to not flout the MCO, which entered its third phase on April 15.