3 January 2010
Penang
Over a period of three days leading up to the New Year’s Eve, increased police presence helped reduced the crime rate in Penang dramatically. 4,000 enforcement personnel were activated.
Penang police chief Datuk Ayub Yaakob announced that there were only 30 reported crime cases during the three days, compared to the daily average of [...]
29 November 2008
George Town
The 29-year-old mother of missing child Shearwey Ooi Ying Ying has been bound over for lodging a false missing person’s report at the Balik Pulau magistrate court office yesterday.
While there, former sales executive Jess Teh Hooi Wen’s mother, Ong Sea Wah, was signing the court bond. It was believed then that Teh [...]
8 April 2008
Penang
A group of seven men, including a Taiwanese, have been arrested on suspicion of short message scams involving at least RM1 million. The numerous scams were reported in Johor, Selangor, Penang, Negri Sembilan and Perak.
The scam syndicate would send short messages to victims notifying them of some prize winnings and required them to [...]
8 April 2008
Penang
A 30-year-old woman, who works as a hypermarket salesgirl and is a mother of three, claimed that she was blackmailed into having sex with two men on Friday.
The woman had been seeing a man known to her only as Zul for the past month after she and her husband seperated half a year [...]
26 March 2008
Penang
Police have made their biggest bust on illegal betting syndicates this year with raids on three bet counting centres which have accepted about RM9 million worth of bets per month in George Town and Butterworth.
Last Wednesday, two men, aged 42 and 55 years, were arrested in connection with a syndicate operating in Air [...]
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