Police bust PJ house burglary ring with arrest of trio

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have busted a burglary ring believed to be responsible for a spate of four house break-ins in the Petaling Jaya district with the arrest of three suspects on Aug 1.

Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Mohamad Fakhruddin Abdul Hamid said the arrest of the three suspects, including a woman, led to the solving of four cases of house burglaries around the Petaling Jaya district involving an estimated loss of RM24,800.

Police nabbed all the suspects, aged between 29 and 43, at the Sungai Buloh toll plaza here at 2pm.

ACP Mohamad Fakhruddin said police also confiscated items including a branded trinket box containing a chain, a branded handbag, a bottle of perfume and a spanner.

"We also seized two pawn receipts, a screwdriver, a set of Allen keys and three modified Allen keys,” he said in a statement Wednesday (Aug 9), adding that a check confirmed that all the suspects had criminal records, including drug abuse offences.

According to him, one suspect also tested positive for methamphetamine.

ACP Fakhruddin said what led to the arrest of the trio was a police report on a house burglary in the Damansara Damai area in Petaling Jaya at 12.28pm on July 30.

According to the report, the complainant arrived home at 11.30am to find the grill door of his house broken, with losses of RM2,700.

"The suspects were remanded for a week from Aug 2,” he said. - Bernama