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- Tomb raiding brothers nabbed
- End of the road for carjackers
- Number of road fatalities in Malaysia alarming — Lee
- RM40,000 payroll goes to robbers instead
- Quick action by police nabs habitual thief
- Two arrested with homemade guns
| Posted: 21 Dec 2013 03:02 PM PST by Margaret Ringgit, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on December 22, 2013, Sunday MIRI: Four men, three of them siblings, were nabbed during an ambush yesterday on suspicion of raiding a tomb at an SIB cemetery in Morsjaya here early this month. The four are aged 16, 21, 22 and 31 years. They were caught by a team comprising personnel from Miri CID and Miri Criminal Prevention Unit in Lopeng at about 11am. Police seized several electrical items, believed to be stolen goods, from the suspects, and confiscated a shovel that was believed to have been used to raid the tomb. Miri Police chief ACP Mun Kock Keong, when contacted, confirmed the arrests made. He said the case was being investigated under Section 297 of the Penal Code for trespassing on burial places. The penalty upon conviction is imprisonment for a term that may extend to a year, or with fine, or both. On Dec 7, a human skull was found in a drain, while a decomposing body was found outside a grave in Morsjaya.  To enable your comment to be published, please refrain from vulgar language, insidious, seditious or slanderous remarks. This includes vulgar user names.  |
| End of the road for carjackers Posted: 21 Dec 2013 03:02 PM PST by Jeremy Lanson, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on December 22, 2013, Sunday Army personnel stop vehicle robbed from assistant minister from crossing into Kalimantan, two suspects arrested BAU: An attempt to smuggle the Toyota Fortuner robbed from Culture and Heritage Assistant Minister Liwan Lagang to Indonesia via the Serikin border crossing was thwarted by army personnel manning the border post yesterday morning. A press statement from the army revealed that army personnel manning border posts along the Sarawak- West Kalimantan border were put on alert following the carjacking of Liwan's vehicle at Kota Sentosa last Monday morning. Soldiers under the command of Sergeant Norazam Ramli stationed at the Serikin border post stopped a four-wheel drive vehicle driven by a man and a male passenger trying to drive to Kalimantan through the crossing at 7.40am. Upon inspection it was found that the licence plate and documents of the vehicle were fake and further check revealed that the Toyota Fortunner fit the description of Liwan's vehicle. The two men were immediately detained and handed over to the Bau police station together with the vehicle. Meanwhile, Bau District Police chief DSP Mohd Sabri Zainol confirmed the arrest of the two suspects aged 47 and 29 and the recovery of the vehicle. "The suspects are believed to have attempted to smuggle the vehicle across to Indonesia but it was found that the car plate number was fake. "Further inspection by the army personnel on duty found that the vehicle the two suspects used was reported stolen in Kota Sentosa in a carjacking case on December 16," he said. Both suspects and the vehicle were later transferred to Padawan police station for further action. Padawan district police chief Superintendent Pauzi Bujang told the press that the suspects would be placed under remand while investigations are being carried out. "The suspects are both locals. We are still investigating, but we believe both have been actively involved in vehicle thefts," he said. On December 16, at around 6:10am, Liwan was approached by two strangers at the parking lot in the vicinity of Kota Sentosa market. According to reports, one of the men threatened Liwan with a knife and demanded for his car keys. Instead of giving in the assemblyman fought back and in the struggle was wounded and overpowered by the robbers who drove with his vehicle. Liwan, when contacted, expressed his appreciation to the army personnel as well as the police for recovering his vehicle. "I have been informed of the situation and I'm glad for the competence of the army and police in handling the case," he said. To enable your comment to be published, please refrain from vulgar language, insidious, seditious or slanderous remarks. This includes vulgar user names. |
| Number of road fatalities in Malaysia alarming — Lee Posted: 21 Dec 2013 02:58 PM PST SIBU: The number of road fatalities in Malaysia is alarming where motorcyclists and pillion riders make up about 60 per cent of the fatalities. National Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye lamented that most of them were young and in the prime of their lives. Calling for the matter to be tackled with urgency, he stressed that both employers and employees need to collaborate and be committed in building a culture of commuting accident (CA) prevention to help reduce commuting accidents. "A major occupational safety and health issue in Malaysia is the one related to commuting accidents involving employees who commute from their home to their place of work and vice-versa. "While industrial accidents are generally on the decline, the number of commuting accidents involving employees has increased by 38 per cent in the past five years from 19,041 accidents with 1,174 deaths in 2008 to 26,262 with 983 deaths in 2012 as reported by Social Security Organisation (Socso). "The number of road fatalities in Malaysia is alarming. There are more than 6,000 fatalities every year for the last few years and that translates into 18 – 20 people killed every day. "According to Socso there were three work-related deaths every day in the year 2011. Two out of the three deaths were due to commuting accidents indicating a serious situation in the country," Lee said in an emailed press statement. The impact of commuting accidents were far greater than industrial accidents as commuting accidents normally involve multiple injuries and the injuries sustained were far more worse and traumatising when compared to the workplace accidents, he bemoaned. "The problems related to the rising number of these accidents are lack of awareness among the workers for safe riding and driving while commuting to work, lack of comprehensive training programme targeted to commuting accidents, lack of commuting safety management or lack of road safety elements in Occupational Safety Health (OSH) Management System at workplaces. "Based on Socso's statistic, accidents happen on the way to work in the morning. It may happen because workers rush to work. Based on statistics, other underlying factors are speeding, reckless driving, texting and lack of focus," he said of the contributing factors. Towards this end, Lee assured that Niosh was actively involved in encouraging employers to commit their employees in its safe motorcycle defensive riding training programme. It is working on improving the training module for future safe motorcycle riding and defensive driving courses. Turning to employers, he said they had a moral obligation to adopt a proactive approach to managing occupational road risk as well as to implementing the Industrial Code of Practice (ICOP) on safety, health and the environment. "Companies which take action to promote the safety of their staff while driving will achieve major cost savings improve their image and make a significant contribution to meeting road safety targets," Lee concluded. To enable your comment to be published, please refrain from vulgar language, insidious, seditious or slanderous remarks. This includes vulgar user names. |
| RM40,000 payroll goes to robbers instead Posted: 21 Dec 2013 02:56 PM PST KUCHING: It looks like a bleak Christmas for workers of an oil palm plantation after a businessman allegedly lost RM40,000 in payroll to three robbers in front of a bank in Jalan Stutong yesterday. The victim in his 40s was riding a motorcycle and had just withdrawn cash of RM40,000 at around 4pm. Just as he was about to exit from a junction not far from the bank, he was hit by a car and three men alighted from the car to attack him. The victim had only managed to defend himself but one of the suspects grabbed the bag in which the money was kept. All three then fled the scene in the car. The victim, who was hurt on his hands and body, was rushed to a nearby private hospital by passers-by who witnessed the attack. It was understood that the victim had withdrawn money to pay his workers' salaries. At press-time, he was reported to be in stable condition and is still being treated at the hospital. His family lodged a police report and police are investigating. To enable your comment to be published, please refrain from vulgar language, insidious, seditious or slanderous remarks. This includes vulgar user names. |
| Quick action by police nabs habitual thief Posted: 21 Dec 2013 02:56 PM PST SIBU: Old habit dies hard. A habitual thief was released from an eight-month jail sentence in October for snatching, and he went back to his old ways on Friday night. However, police acted promptly and pounced on him within two hours after a failed snatching incident at about 7.30pm. Police believe the 20-year-old man commit crimes alone. In the 7.30pm incident, a 50-year-old woman was closing her shop at Lanang Lane 1 when the suspect made his move. He snatched her handbag, but the woman put up a struggle. When he tried to ride off with the woman's bag, the bag became stuck to the wheel of his motorcycle, and the jolt caused him to fall off the vehicle. He quickly fled on foot, leaving his motorcycle and the woman's bag behind. A report was lodged, and the police acted quickly. They found that the suspect had borrowed the motorcycle from a friend. With the help of a member of the public, police stormed his house in Bukit Assek Road and arrested him at 9.30pm. Meanwhile, in another incident during late morning on the same day, a woman was snatched of her handbag as she was walking out from a bank with cash totalling RM1,500. She had withdrawn RM500 while her mother RM1,000, and both their money was kept in the handbag. Two strangers on a motorcycle then came along and the pillion rider snatched the bag before speeding off. A police report was immediately lodged, and the woman quickly cancelled her credit card for fear it would be used by the snatch thieves. To enable your comment to be published, please refrain from vulgar language, insidious, seditious or slanderous remarks. This includes vulgar user names. |
| Two arrested with homemade guns Posted: 21 Dec 2013 02:55 PM PST MIRI: Two men were arrested in a police raid late Friday evening for illegal possession of firearms. Miri Police chief ACP Mun Kok Keong said the operation was conducted by Miri CID and Criminal Prevention Unit team. In the raid held around 4pm to 6pm on Friday in Lambir, a homemade air gun and a homemade shotgun were seized from a hut where the two suspects were staying at. During the raid, police also confiscated several items believed to be stolen, such as a kettle, a hoe and machetes. Police are investigating the case under Section 8(a) of the Firearms Act 1960 and Section 457 of the Penal Code for house-trespassing, an offence punishable with imprisonment. The suspects aged 18 and 21 have been brought to Miri Central Police Station (CPS) for investigation. According to sources, both suspects were stunned upon seeing a team of police dashing to their hut, despite the area being in flood waters due to a heavy downpour the day earlier. To enable your comment to be published, please refrain from vulgar language, insidious, seditious or slanderous remarks. This includes vulgar user names. |
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