Three suspects grilled over motodop murder
TWO men suspected of murdering a motodop before stea ling his motorbike in t he capita l last week continued to be questioned on Wednesday by the Phnom Penh municipa l police serious crimes bureau.
A third man was a lso arrested and is being questioned after a llegedly buying t he v ictim’s stolen motorbike from the murder suspects.
On October 15, passers-by saw 29-year-old Mek Phin ly ing dead on a gravel road in Khvet v illage, in Dangkor district’s Sak Sampov commune.
The Ministr y of Interior’s Penal Police Department collaborated with the bureau on Monday to arrest the three men in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district.
Penal Department deputy chief Colonel Chiev Vibol told The Post on Wednesday that his forces worked with the Phnom Penh municipal police headquarters to arrest the suspects because the case fell under the municipal police’s jurisdict ion.
“My department collaborated to arrest t he t hree suspects and they are at the Phnom Penh municipal police headquarters,” he said.
Heng Sophea, the chief of the Phnom Penh municipal police serious crimes bureau, said on Wednesday that the men were being detained for questioning before being sent to court.
“We are working to move the case for ward and t he t hree suspects are still being questioned at my office,” he said.
A district police officer said the two murder suspects were construction workers, one 36 years old and the other 43.
The t hird suspect, he said, was a 42-year-old who a llegedly buys and sells stolen motorbikes.
He said t he arrests were made at 9pm on Monday in t he capita l’s Por Sen Chey district when t he aut horities found the men who had been in hiding.
The police seized a black 2015 Honda Dream C125 motorbike with a Battambang prov ince number plate and a blue Oppo phone that was a lso a llegedly stolen from t he v ictim.
Phin, the victim, was a glass cutter and motodop who lived in a rented house near Por Sen Chey district’s Century Plaza Market. He hailed from Takeo province’s Koh Andet district, in Prey Khla commune’s Samkhli village.
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