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Police have smashed a gang behind a string of car hijackings, robberies and rape. The operation was one of the major successes notched up by the police last year. The five-man gang, called the Jongos Gang, were active for only about six months.
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Police have smashed a gang behind a string of car hijackings, robberies and rape. The operation was one of the major successes notched up by the police last year. The five-man gang, called the Jongos Gang, were active for only about six months.
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Police have smashed a gang behind a string of car hijackings, robberies and rape. The operation was one of the major successes notched up by the police last year. The five-man gang, called the Jongos Gang, were active for only about six months.
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gang smashed, 19 held by Charles Ramendran tween five and 10 times more,” Mohd Sabtu newsdesk@thesundaily.com said. He said two suspects among the brokers KUALA LUMPUR: Police have smashed a detained were also involved in producing and gang behind a string of car hijackings, rob- selling forged road tax discs for the cars. The beries and rape with the arrest of 19 men in a two, including a former army sergeant, had three-week operation. sold about 60 such vehicle documents for The operation by the city serious crimes between RM200 and RM300 each. division was one of the major successes Mohd Sabtu said police recovered 13 cars, notched up by the police last year. including several luxury models. The five-man gang, called the Jongos He said the gang members would trail Gang, and 14 others who acted as middlemen their targeted victims and when the drivers who disposed the loot, were active for only stopped and stepped out of their cars, the about six months but were behind at least gang would confront them with parangs two dozen car hijackings and eight rape cases before robbing them and escaping in their in the city and in Selangor and other states. victims’ cars. City police chief DCP Datuk Mohd Sabtu In eight cases reported in Selangor, the Osman told reporters yesterday a 30-year-old gang members had not only hijacked the cars taxi driver and the gang’s 35-year-old master- but also abducted their female victims and mind, both of whom lived with their families gang-raped them. in Wangsa Maju, were the first to be arrested Police have identified 26 criminal cases on Dec 4 close to their homes. linked to the gang and are investigating to see This led to the arrest of three other gang if there are more. members, aged between 18 and 30, in Gom- Last year, police also smashed 10 other bak on Dec 24. gang – called Tiger, Aman, AAO, Ah Tok, Ah Over the next several days, 14 men were Meng, Mamak, Modesto, Ah Seow, Netagi, picked up for acting as brokers who disposed and Hartamas – and recovered a large array the cars at a tenth of their market value to of weapons and firearms. unsuspecting buyers. Among the items seized were 25 handguns “They sold the cars at between RM6,000 and pumpguns, three hand-grenades and and RM60,000 although their value was be- 1,052 bullets.
Jobless man gets 28 years for
abducting, robbing and raping nurse SHAH ALAM: A jobless man was sentenced to have robbed the nurse of a gold necklace and a 28 years in jail and eight strokes of the rotan by watch by the roadside at Batu 16, Sungai Pelong, the High Court here yesterday for abducting, near here, at about 10pm on July 17, 2003. robbing and raping a nurse six years ago. For this offence, Civajanam was to serve eight His 20-year-old accomplice was ordered years in jail and whipped three times. to spend time in prison until his 21st birthday He and the juvenile offender also admitted because he was only 14 when he committed to have abducted the woman and for this, Civa- the offences. janam was sentenced to four years jail. S. Civajanam, 30, and the juvenile offender had They also raped her in the back seat of a car pleaded guilty to all the charges before Judicial near a car park on Jalan Alfa 9/5, Kampung Baru Commissioner Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim. Subang 2, between 11.30pm and 2.30am the According to the facts of the case, the nurse, next day. The nurse was left in a housing area who was then 19, was driving home from work in Jinjang. when she was hit from behind by a car with the Civajanam received 16 years’ jail and five two accused in it. When she got out to inspect strokes for the rape. her car, the duo threatened her with a parang Abang Iskandar ordered the jail terms to run and forced her to get into their car. consecutively from the day the accused was Civajanam and his accomplice admitted to arrested on July 18, 2003. – Bernama
status of Islam, besides giving appreciation to
the recipient. “Though the prize is not a priority, it is to briefs appreciate the ulama whose contributions are bigger compared with singers. If, last year, we gave RM100,000 to those named Tokoh No report of retrenchments, Ma’al Hijrah, this year, we may give them RM1 million,” he told reporters after the launch of says Penang panel the Terengganu chapter of Majlis Amal Islami GEORGE TOWN: In spite of the global economic Malaysia (Maim) here. downturn, the Penang government has not ob- “If singers and sportsmen can get sponsor- tained any report of retrenchment exercises ships from companies, why not the ulama? carried out by factories in the state. Government-linked companies, for instance, State human resources committee chairman can become sponsors.” – Bernama Ajit Singh Jessy said yesterday manufacturing companies have not resorted to retrenching their ‘Customers’ grab RM200,000 workers but are instead offering longer leave and voluntary separation schemes. worth of jewellery “Our committee has not been informed of GEORGE TOWN: Two men posing as customers any retrenchment or shutting down of factories robbed a jewellery shop of about RM200,000 worth in Penang despite the speculation going around, of gold items here yesterday. especially on the Internet,” he told theSun. The men, dressed in black, had approached Gaik Choo Jewellery on Level Two of Komtar at about 12.30pm on the pretext of buying jewellery. Next Tokoh Ma’al Hijrah may As they sat in front of the glass display, they get RM1m whipped out pistols and ordered shop owner Ong KUALA TERENGGANU: The government may Bee Choo, 65, and her husband, Teoh Kim Beng, give the next Tokoh Ma’al Hijrah RM1 million also 65, to unlock the display and squat. if there are sponsors, Minister in the Prime One of the men emptied five trays of jewellery Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad into a bag while the other kept watch over the Zahid Hamidi said yesterday. couple. There were no customers at the time. He said the objective was to uplift the The robbers escaped on a motorcycle.