:Speedy action led to arrest over theft case

TAWAU, District police succeeded in apprehending a number of people and confiscated two vehicles believed involved in the theft of palm oil fruits from an estate at mile 16, Apas road on July 11, 2008.

District police chief ACP Jaafar Mohd. Yussof said the report was made by a man on the same day when he noticed missing fruits from his estate and based on the information obtained as well as immediate action, police held a Proton Arena at the same area near a Muslim cemetery and found a number of the fruits inside the pickup and detained a man aged 65.

He also said that they had also held a one ton lorry also within the area and confiscated a large number of the fruits and the arrest of 4 men aged between 28 to 39. Jaafar added that the case is being investigated under Section 379 of the Penal Code.

In another development, police brought in a man to assist in a rape case of a 12 year old girl at a palm oil estate at Kalabakan. He said the victim was alone then and an unknown man grabbed her and took her to the estate and raped her around 6.00pm on July 11.

Public assistance in apprehending a snatcher was complimented by Jaafar when they held a man who snatched the necklace of a 29 Malay lady on July 12 at the vicinity of Dunlop street. He said that the lady’s gold necklace was snatched around 10.00am and a group of people chased the suspect leading to the capture and the recovery of the necklace where the suspect was later handed over to police. He said that the suspect is a local Bajau man aged 24.