JOHOR BARU: The remaining three suspects allegedly involved in the kidnapping of a seven-year-old boy in Jalan Serampang here have been arrested by the police.
Johor Baru South OCPD Asst Comm Raub Selamat said the three local youths were arrested in Pontian at around 5.40pm on Wednesday (Dec 20).
“They will be brought to the Johor Baru Magistrate's Court today to obtain a remand order for us to conduct investigations,” he said on Thursday (Dec 21).
On Wednesday, he reportedly said the victim, a Chinese national with Singapore permanent resident status, was abducted not far from the city centre at around 4.30pm on Dec 12.
Police had arrested the main suspect, a 41-year-old car mechanic and business partner of the victim’s father, who had planned the kidnapping with three others, seeking a RM300,000 ransom.
However, no ransom was paid, as police successfully arrested the main suspect on the same day, remanding him for seven days and charging him under Section 363 of the Penal Code for kidnapping.
A Singapore news portal earlier reported that a businessman had taken his wife and two young children, a girl and a boy, to Johor Baru as he was planning to invest here.
The couple were inside a shop lot and their children were playing outside at the time of the incident.
A man apparently got out from the front passenger side of a car and grabbed the boy. As the car drove away, the girl alerted her parents.
Fearing for his son’s safety, the businessman then jumped into his car and gave chase. He managed to overtake the other car and blocked it from moving.
He punched the driver’s car window, which shattered, and saw his son sitting in the back seat.
Despite the abductors attempting to escape by ramming the businessman’s car, he held on to the doorframe and was dragged several metres until injuries forced him to let go.
The abductors then fled on foot, leaving behind the car and boy. Members of the public alerted the police.
