Shearwey Murder Case: Mother Bound Over for False Police Report

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 [...]

SMS Scams Fleeced RM1 Million

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 [...]

Woman Threatened and Raped for Refusing Sex

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 [...]

Multi-Million Illegal Betting Syndicates Busted

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 [...]

Drug Trafficking Policeman Among Suspects Held

15 March 2008
Penang
Six men and a police lance corporal was arrested for trafficking 7kg of ganja after police stumbled on a drug trafficking syndicate while catching robbers on Thursday at 5pm.
The suspects, including a teenage son of another policeman and two women, were nabbed in a rented flat. Methamphetamine crystals, heroin and Erimin 5 pills [...]

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