Two robbery gangs busted
> Three gunmen killed in Muar, four held over gold heist in KL
MUAR: Three gunmen, believed to be members of a robbery gang active for a decade in Johor, were shot dead by police near Tanjung Parit Bunga, Muar yesterday.
Johor police chief Comm Datuk Seri Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd said after a tip-off, a team from Bukit Aman's Special Task Force on Organised Crime (Stafoc) and the Johor serious crime investigation department trailed the suspects' vehicle from the Malacca exit of the North-South Expressway to the Alor Gajah-Malacca-Jasin Highway.
He said police intercepted the vehicle at about 9.30am near Tanjung Parit Bunga and ordered the driver to stop.
“The car did not stop and several gunshots rang out. Police returned fire and shot dead the three suspects,” Wan Ahmad said.
Police found two pistols in the car, both without serial numbers, but did not find any identification documents on the three persons.
In KUALA LUMPUR, in just a week after a gang of five robbers grabbed about 10kg of jewellery worth about RM1.8 million from a gold wholesale trader near Jalan Masjid India, police managed to solve the case with the arrest of four suspects on Tuesday.
A team of police detectives from the Dang Wangi CID, who were hot on the trail of the suspects, held the men, aged between 20 and 40, in several raids at undisclosed locations in the Klang Valley.
Police recovered part of the loot from the suspects.
Sources said the men had sold the bulk of the jewellery to middlemen and had planned to smelt the rest into gold wafers.
However, they were busted and investigators are trying to trace those who had purchased the stolen jewellery from the gang.
It is learnt that police also seized machetes and other weapons from the suspects and are looking for another accomplice.