Friday February 24, 2012

House break-in gang and leader held

KAJANG: Staying at budget hotels before committing break-ins, the gang led by a man with six fingers also painstakingly carried out surveillance on houses they had targeted.

Police crippled the “Six Fingers” gang when they arrested the 36-year-old leader and four gang members, including a woman.

They had committed at least 13 break-ins in Kajang, Rinching, Sungai Jelok and Semenyih since early last year.

Tools of the trade: ACP Abdul Rashid showing a fake pistol and tools seized from the gang in Kajang yesterday.

 

OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Rashid Abdul Wahab said the gang monitored unoccupied houses.

“We seized a host of weapons and house break-in tools including a fake pistol, parang, baseball bat, knives,, hammer, pliers, screwdrivers and paraphernalia to consume drugs.

“The gang members are experts in break-ins and would attack the owners if they returned home,” he said yesterday.

He added that all the suspects had convictions for break-ins, theft, possession of dangerous weapons and drug-related offences.

ACP Abdul Rashid said urine tests on all the suspects, aged between 28 and 36, came back positive for meth and opiate abuse.

He said four of the suspects, including the leader, were detained at a budget hotel in Semenyih at about 3am on Feb 13.

In a follow-up operation on the same day, another suspect was picked up at a house in Rinching.

ACP Abdul Rashid said police also busted the notorious “Bumper Gang” who staged fake accidents before robbing motorists of their vehicles.

He said two gang members, aged 24 and 25, were detained during a 5km high-speed chase which ended at a construction site in Bandar Teknologi Kajang on Feb 14.

He added that initial investigations showed the gang was responsible for at least 16 car robbery cases, mostly involving Toyota Vios and Camry, in the Klang Valley.

ACP Abdul Rashid said the gang’s modus operandi was to ram into the back of a vehicle driven by a lone driver during odd hours before one of them alighted, pretending to apologise.

He said other accomplices would charge out brandishing dangerous weapons to threaten the victim before speeding of with the car.