Duo arrested over Kudat housebreaking cases
KOTA KINABALU: Kudat police arrested two men in connection with two housebreaking cases at the district’s Veterinary Department quarters early this month.
The men were initially picked up from the district’s Klinik Kesihatan quarters on Oct 4, said Kudat District police chief Supt Mohd Firdaus Francis Abdullah.
After questioning, one of the suspects led police to an unnumbered house at Kampung Tanjong Kapor where some of the stolen goods and the vehicle used to transport them were recovered.
“Both suspects who tested positive for drugs were later rearrested on Oct 11 and are now being investigated under Section 457 of the Penal Code,” he said, adding that the suspects were locals aged 35 and 40 respectively.
The complainant of the first case was a nurse whose house at the department’s quarters was broken into on Oct 2. She came home to find the front door ajar and her television set, savings bank book containing RM3,000, two smartphones, a cooking gas cylinder and a 1TB external hard disc missing.
Meanwhile the complainant of the second case was a veterinary doctor who came home to the department’s quarters on Oct 3 morning and found the iron grill to the place cut and padlocked damaged.
Upon checking the premises, he discovered that a 42-inch television, a cooking gas cylinder and his coin collection of about RM200 missing.
“So far police have recovered the two televisions, two cooking gas cylinders and a car believed to have been used by the suspects,” Mohd Firdaus said.
He added that the suspects were also being investigated under Section 15 (1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1953.