WAR ON GANGSTERISM CONTINUES: Yeoh (right) standing next to a car with the sacks of latex seized in Sungai Bidut. Police have arrested a man (left, in handcuff) to help in their investigation
SIBU: Local police yesterday remanded the gangster said to have attempted to extort a rubber taper before robbing him at knife-point in Sungei Bidut.
They applied for a five-day remand in court under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code and were now investigating the 38-year-old for armed gang-robbery.
Police believed the suspect had taken a group of up to 10 men armed with parangs to a rubber estate in the downstream village last Tuesday to impose a levy for the collected latex at 20 sen per kilogramme.
When the victim refused, the gangster allegedly robbed the man of his 49 sacks of latex worth over RM30,000.
The victim lodged a report last week, and then a CID team led by ASP Yeoh Chun Shyan, laid ambush outside the man’s house overnight.
They jumped on him on Saturday when he returned home.
The police also seized four sacks of latex and two parangs from the suspect.
Following his arrest, Sibu police chief ACP Shafie Ismail assured the villagers the police would not sit on the gangsterism crime when rubber tapers were terrorised by gangsters who collected latex levy from them.
Shafie said he had received the villagers’ letters of complaints.
“I assure them that tough action against these gangsters has already begun.
“We are getting help from our headquarters. We expect to arrest more gangsters,” he explained
SIBU: Local police yesterday remanded the gangster said to have attempted to extort a rubber taper before robbing him at knife-point in Sungei Bidut.
They applied for a five-day remand in court under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code and were now investigating the 38-year-old for armed gang-robbery.
Police believed the suspect had taken a group of up to 10 men armed with parangs to a rubber estate in the downstream village last Tuesday to impose a levy for the collected latex at 20 sen per kilogramme.
When the victim refused, the gangster allegedly robbed the man of his 49 sacks of latex worth over RM30,000.
The victim lodged a report last week, and then a CID team led by ASP Yeoh Chun Shyan, laid ambush outside the man’s house overnight.
They jumped on him on Saturday when he returned home.
The police also seized four sacks of latex and two parangs from the suspect.
Following his arrest, Sibu police chief ACP Shafie Ismail assured the villagers the police would not sit on the gangsterism crime when rubber tapers were terrorised by gangsters who collected latex levy from them.
Shafie said he had received the villagers’ letters of complaints.
“I assure them that tough action against these gangsters has already begun.
“We are getting help from our headquarters. We expect to arrest more gangsters,” he explained
Sibu police to crack down on thugs collecting latex levy
Sibu police chief, ACP Shafie Ismail, assured villagers in Sungai Bidut that they would not sit on the problem of rubber tapers being terrorised by gangsters who collected latex levy from them.
When contacted yesterday, Shafie confirmed that he had received letters from the villagers seeking help.
He said they complained about gangsters forcing them to pay levy on the latex that they collected daily.
“I assured them that tough action against the gangsters has already begun. Today we arrested a suspect (Saturday) when he returned home.”
The police chief said they seized from the 38-year-old suspect four gunny sacks of rubber believed to have been forcibly taken from his victims.
“We also seized two parangs. We do not rule out he has used them to threaten his victims.”
Shafie identified the suspect as a gangster staying in the village.
He would be remanded today.
“We are getting help from our headquarters. We expect to arrest more gangsters.”
He asked the victims in Sungai Bidut and surrounding villages not to suffer in silence, but should call the police.
Yesterday’s arrest was carried out by a CID team led by ASP Yeoh Chun Shyan during an ambush on the house of the suspect in Sungai Bidut.
To do so, the team hid overnight in the forest.
Shafie confirmed they had received a report from the 26-year-old victim last Wednesday about the suspect demanding latex levy from him at 20 sen per kilogramme.
He said when the victim refused to pay the suspect allegedly robbed him of the 49 gunny sacks of rubber.
It was learnt that when the victim approached the suspect concerning the rubber, the suspect challenged him to lodge a police report.
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