Malaysia Crime Watch

16 January 2007
Kuala Lumpur

S. Suresh, aged 31, an ASP police officer, has been charged with four counts of assault. The court has charged him for allegedly assaulting engineer N. Sathia and yard manager S. Siva Kumar at the Brickfields police headquarters on December 26 2005. He also caused hurt to the same persons at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail police station on the same day.

Suresh posted the RM3,000 bail and his case will be due for mention on April 2 2007.

The Star Online – Senior cop claims trial to assault charges
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Tuesday/National/20070116083256/Article/local1_html>

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16 January 2007
Kuala Lumpur

Police has seized heroin from two distribution syndicates worth RM300,000 and arrested eight men last week.

In the first group, two men were nabbed along Jalan Gasing, allegedly found to possess 6.5kg of heroin. One of the men is wanted for a murder case while the other four had been involved in drug offences and serious crimes. They remain under police remand until January 18 2007.

Three men in Kepong and Cheras of the second syndicate were arrested yesterday.

Police believe the drugs were distributed in the Klang Valley.

New Straits Times – Cops bust two heroin rings, 8 men arrested
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/16/nation/16579864&sec=nation>

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16 January 2007
Kota Baru

Medical assistants Mohd Nazri Che Hassan, aged 37, and Ahmad Sabri Mohd Nawi, aged 35, and attendants Mat Ghani Daud, aged 46, and Mohd Azizi Che Abdullah, aged 41, pleaded not guilty in court when the charge of culpable homicide was read out to them.

The victim of the homicide is Illias, aged 41, who was found dead with multiple head and body injuries at the admission room of the male psychiatric ward D of the Raja Perempuan Zainab II hospital. His family had found him on a hospital bed in the early morning of March 22 2006. They claimed that he had been beaten up.

Illias was earlier arrested at the Kampung Pengkalan Datu mosque for creating a disturbance. He was later sent to the hospital for a check-up.

New Straits Times – Hospital workers claim trial over man’s death
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Tuesday/National/20070116082327>

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