By IVAN LOH
The Star 8/8/13
IPOH: A 29-year-old man was shot four times in his Hyundai Atos by two
assailants on a motorcycle near Taman Klebang Putra in Chemor near here
late Wednesday night.
OCPD Asst Comm Sum Chang Keong said the
man was driving in the car in the housing area when the assailants rode
up near the vehicle and fired at least six shots at about 11.15pm.
"The man was driving with two people inside the car, believed to be his family members.
"The two are unharmed during the incident," he told journalists after
attending a Hari Raya open house at the Pekan Baru police station on
Thursday morning.
ACP Sum said police found six slugs on the road where the incident took place.
"The assailants wore full-face helmets and no one was able to determine who they were.
"The victim has been hospitalised after the attack with his condition stable and not critical," he said.
ACP Sum said the victim is believed to be not from Ipoh, noting that the incident was still being investigated.
"The victim is in no condition to talk and we will get some statements from him later," he said.
"We have only received one police report from a witness now," he added.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2013/08/08/Man-shot-four-times-in-Ipoh.aspx
The Star 15/7/13
IPOH: The Hilux gang struck in Kampar near here, shooting and injuring a
shopkeeper and his son but failed to get away with his Toyota Hilux
vehicle.
The gang of three, however, succeeded in driving off
with another Hilux vehicle 30 minutes later by bundling the owner out of
the car and driving off in it.
Police managed to arrest one of the gang members at a road block later.
The 51-year-old shopkeeper and his son, 13, were shot in the stomach
and thigh respectively after the suspects rushed into his house in Taman
Sejahtera at about 8.30pm on Sunday.
Perak deputy police chief
Datuk A. Paramasivam said the victim, his wife and two sons were in the
living room when the three men in ski-masks and armed with machetes and
a pistol entered their house.
The victim's Toyota Hilux
four-wheel drive was believed to be their main target. The group took
mobile phones, identity cards, bank and cheque books from the house and
was about to leave in the victim's Hilux.
"As one of the
suspects was starting the engine when the victim launched an attack with
a machete. But another suspect opened fire hitting the victim in the
stomach and his son in the thigh," Paramasivam said.
The suspects left without the Hilux and escaped in their own getaway car, a dark-colored Proton Perdana.
Barely 30 minutes later, they robbed another Hilux owner of his
vehicle, mobile phones, gold chain, pendant and RM6,000 in cash.
"They pulled the man, 31, from the Hilux and sped off in it while one
of the suspects followed in the Perdana," Paramasivam said. The victim
was unharmed.
Two hours later, however, the suspect
driving the Perdana car was captured at a police road block at Jalan
Ayer Kuning, Tapah. Documents and valuables belonging to the first
victim were found in the car which was reported stolen at Bukit Puchong
recently.
Paramasivam said the 33-year-old suspect from Taman
Orkid, Teluk Intan was warded at a hospital with leg and head injuries.
He has prior criminal records.
The group is believed to be involved in 10 cases of Hilux four-wheel drive thefts.
"We have identified the other two suspects still at large, they're
from Perak. We urge anyone with related information to contact the
police station," Paramasivam said.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2013/07/15/hilux-gang-shopkeeper-shot-and-injured.aspx
Grannies Lose RM3,000 to Conmen
NST 22/6/13
KAMPUNG GAJAH: Two grandmothers lost cash and valuables after they fell victim to a group of conmen here on Wednesday.
In the first incident, the group had pretended to know the victim
before they proceeded to rob her. In the other incident, the group had
gone to the victim's house.
Perak Tengah district police chief Superintendent Muhamad Fakri Che Sulaiman said the first incident happened in Kampung Changkat Rambai at 1pm.
He said the victim, in her 50s, was approached by three individuals, who claimed they knew her.
He said the suspects chatted with the victim outside her house while two of their accomplices ransacked it.
"After they had left, she realised valuables worth RM2,600 were missing."
Fakri said the same group was also believed to have cheated an 82-year-old masseur in Kampung Matang Tok Embin here at 3.15pm.
He said two women had gone to the victim's house on the pretext of
getting a massage. Two men later entered the house with the excuse of
using the bathroom.
"After they had left, the victim found RM500 missing from her handbag."
http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/grannies-lose-rm3-000-to-conmen-1.305151
