Police confirmed that there was no foul play involved in the death of a woman at a hotel room in the city, early this morning.
Johor Baru Selatan police chief ACP Raub Selamat said initial investigations revealed that there were no signs of a struggle or marks found on the woman’s body. He said police received a call from members of the public that a woman was found unconscious inside a hotel room at about 3.30am this morning. “A check carried out by medical officers from the Health Ministry who arrived at the scene, revealed that the 40-year-old woman was already dead. “The case has been classified as sudden death and the body was later sent to the Sultanah Aminah Hospital for post mortem to determine the cause of death,” he said in a statement today. He also urged anyone with information about the incident to contact the JBS police headquarters at 07- 2282323 or contact the Investigating Officer, Inspector Asri Jamalin at 014-6270324. A 30-year-old man was arrested by police following an attempt to abduct an eight-year-old girl outside her house here recently.
Kuching police chief ACP Ahsmon Bajah said a police report on the alleged incident, which happened at a housing area near Kuching International Airport, was lodged at 6.55pm on March 11. “The girl was playing outside her house when the incident happened. Acting on information from the public, police arrested the man at the scene and seized a sedan car used during the incident,” he said in a statement. Ahsmon said the case is being investigated under Section 365 the Penal Code which provides for imprisonment which may extend to seven years and also liable to a fine, upon conviction. He said initial investigations found the suspect was a person with learning difficulties and has been receiving treatment at Sarawak General Hospital since 2001 for attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). A background check also found that the suspect did not have any prior criminal records, he added. “On March 15 at 9am, the suspect was brought to court and charged under Section 365 of the Penal Code read together with Section 511 of the same Code. “The court ordered the suspect to be detained at Sentosa Hospital for psychiatric evaluation, and the case will be mentioned again on April 22 after medical reports are received,” he said. Ahsmon also extended his gratitude to the public for their swift action in apprehending the suspect, and reminded the public to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activities to the authorities. It was learned that the father of the girl had posted about the incident on Facebook. Police confirmed that an 18-month-old baby boy, Muhammad Uwais Mohd Khairul, was believed to have died after his mother slit his throat in a tragic incident in Pasir Gudang yesterday.
Seri Alam police chief Supt Mohd Sohaimi Ishak said the baby boy was in the hall of the house when the incident happened. “.... it was due to the ‘slash wound to the neck’ and until now a neighbour has been called up and a statement recorded to assist investigations,” he said when contacted today. Sohaimi when asked if the suspect had a mental disorder, he did not elaborate further. The mother, 32, has been remanded for seven days to assist investigations while the remand order was issued by Magistrate Suhaili Sapun at the Hospital Permai in Tampoi, here. During the 1.30pm incident, the mother is believed to have slashed her son’s throat, snapped a picture of the son in a pool of blood, and sent the picture to her husband through the Whatsapp application on her phone. Police also found a knife at the scene, believed to have been used by the suspect during the incident. He added that the body of the baby boy was sent to the Sultan Ismail Hospital (HSI) for post mortem and later claimed by the father after investigations had been completed and is expected to be buried in Felda Redong, Segamat. The case will be investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder. Police raided 11 premises believed to be involved in prostitution activities in the Jalan Pudu and Jalan Bukit Bintang areas here yesterday.
Dang Wangi district police chief ACP Noor Dellhan Yahaya said the premises that were raided included seven massage parlours, and two prostitution dens and food courts respectively. According to him, the raids were carried out between 2.30 pm and 11 pm, with police detaining 47 individuals comprising eight locals including two women, and 39 foreign nationals, all aged between 18 and 60. “Several items were seized in the operation, including 20 flower necklaces (tip payments), massage oil, seven advertisements for massage packages, mobile phones and RM4,730 in cash,” he said in a statement today. Noor Dellhan said preliminary investigations found that the modus operandi used in the said premises was to provide flower garlands to customers who wanted sex services. “Customers will pay a certain price for the services of foreign women,” he said. He added that all suspects were remanded today and the case is being investigated in accordance with Section 372B of the Penal Code, and Section 55B and Section 6 (1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63. The Johor Immigration Department has arrested 44 foreigners during a raid at an entertainment centre in Iskandar Puteri last weekend.
The raid, part of an Immigration Department operation called “Ops Gegar”, targeted foreign women who acted as stage entertainers that are popular in nightspots here. Johor Immigration director Baharuddin Tahir said the raid, initiated from public tip-offs, took place on last Friday at 12.10am. He said the department was made aware that there have been cases of foreign women involved with immoral activities and were illegally working in the country without proper documentation or permits. “A total of 42 foreign women, who worked as ‘flower girls’, were arrested. The raid included their living quarters located on the third floor of the premise. “Initial investigations revealed that each woman is paid between RM50 and RM500 for their services. “Further checks revealed that the women had violated their social visit passes and temporary employment visit passes,” said Baharuddin in a statement today. In addition, Baharuddin said the department’s enforcement team also arrested two men from China and Bangladesh to assist in investigations. He said out of the 42 foreign women, 40 were from Thailand while one was from Indonesia and another from Myanmar. “All those arrested are between the ages of 25 and 45,” he said. Baharuddin said the case is being investigated under Section 15(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1959/1963 for overstaying and Rule 11(7)(a) of the Immigration Regulations 1963 for violating their social visit passes. In a separate case, the Johor Immigration Department arrested 63 foreigners for working without proper permits in several raids here last week. Baharuddin said the raids, held from March 13 to March 17, saw 26 premises inspected within the Johor Baru district. “Those arrested were 21 men from Bangladesh, eight men from India, eight men from Nepal, six men from Pakistan, two men from Indonesia, five women from Indonesia and one woman from the Philippines. “In addition, there were also four men, four women, two boys and a girl, all from Myanmar who were apprehended during the raids,” he said, adding that those arrested were aged between 3 and 61. Baharuddin said the case is being investigated under Section 6(1)(c) and Section 15(1)(c) of the Immigration Act of 1959/63 for entering the country without valid travel documents and overstaying. He added that authorities are also investigating the case under Section 39(b) of the Immigration Regulations 1963 for violating their visit pass requirements. The Immigration Department has been cracking down on undocumented migrants and visitors since last year, especially those who misuse their social visit passes to work without valid documents. In Johor, lorry attendant gets jail, whipping for rape, physical sexual assault of teenager3/15/2024 The Sessions Court here today sentenced a lorry attendant to a total of five years in prison and three strokes of the cane for physical sexual assault and rape of a teenage girl last month.
Judge Abu Bakar Manat handed down the sentence on Muhammad Syazwan Akmal Mohd Hanafadil, 27, after he pleaded guilty to the two charges against the victim who was then 15 years old. Muhammad Syazwan Akmal was sentenced to two years in prison and one stroke of the cane for physical sexual assault and three years in jail and two strokes of the cane for the rape charge. However, he only has to spend three years in prison and three lashes after the court ordered the jail sentences to be served concurrently from the date of his arrest, which was last March 8. He was charged with committing physical sexual assault on the girl in a room at a hotel in Jalan Kampung Tengah, Jalan Sungai Abong, Muar, at about 9am last February 20. On the second count, he was charged with raping the girl in a hotel room in Jalan Kampung Tengah, Jalan Sungai Abong, Muar at about 8am last February 23. The charges were framed under Section 14 (a) of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act and Section 376 (1) of the Penal Code, respectively. Deputy public prosecutor Danial Munir prosecuted, while the accused was unrepresented. Police have detained one of the two foreign men wanted since yesterday for allegedly splashing petrol and setting a foreign woman on fire at the Kampung Cheras Baru playground here last Saturday.
Cheras district police chief, ACP Zam Halim Jamaluddin, said that the 36-year-old suspect was arrested at a residence in Ampang here today. “The suspect, who works as a painter, has been remanded from today until March 20,” he said briefly via a WhatsApp message. Earlier, Zam Halim said that police received a report of the incident last Sunday and that they are currently conducting further investigations to locate another suspect who remains at large. An elderly woman died while her husband suffered from breathing difficulties in a fire involving two houses in USJ4, Selangor, early this morning.
Subang Fire and Rescue Station commander Shamsul Abidin said they received an emergency call at 1.15am regarding a fire involving terraced houses, which were about 60 per cent engulfed in flames, along with a vehicle. He said five fire engines from Subang and Puchong Fire and Rescue Stations were dispatched to the scene. “The married couple involved are locals in their 70s. The woman was successfully rescued by the firefighters but was confirmed dead by healthcare personnel,” he said in a statement today. Shamsul said the fire was brought under control at around 1.40am. A five-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital here when an iron rod pierced his chest and neck after falling near Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Tandek in Kampung Tandek, here yesterday.
It was learned that the boy was walking with his mother to a grocery shop when he fell down around 6pm. The mother immediately took her son to the hospital but doctors were unable to remove the iron rod. Kota Marudu fire and rescue station chief Mohd Hasbi Hajat said they received a call from the hospital requesting for assistance at 6.31pm. A team rushed to the hospital and removed the iron rod from the boy. “Fire and rescue personnel cut the iron rod using special equipment. “The boy’s condition was not known at that time as he was sedated when the operation was being carried out,” said Hasbi, adding that the operation ended at 7.09pm. It is learned that the boy is in stable condition. Police arrested six individuals including two Thai couples in separate raids last Wednesday suspected of being involved in drug smuggling and trafficking syndicates from a neighbouring country.
Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the seizures involved 90.4 kilogrammes (kg) of ganja and 1.5 litres (left) of ketum liquid valued at RM281,000. “The modus operandi of the syndicates is to bring in the supply using drug mules (transporters) comprising two local men and later two Thai couples will enter the country using social visit pass as tourists in private vehicles. “The drugs are placed in a homestay rented earlier before trafficking them around the Klang Valley. From interrogation, they were believed to have carried out the activity twice before being apprehended in their third attempt,” he said in a media conference at the Sungai Buloh police headquarters here today. He said in the first arrest, the police caught two drug mules by the roadside in the Subang Jaya along with a Ford Ranger and 40 compressed lumps of suspected ganja weighing 10.4 kg. “As a result of the interrogation, police raided a homestay in Ampang Jaya and seized 50 compressed lumps of suspected ganja weighing an estimated 50.3kg. “Following the first arrest, the police arrested two Thai men and two women believed to be the main masterminds of this syndicate at a homestay in Balakong, Kajang along with 1.5L of ketum liquid,” he said. He said all local suspects have past criminal records involving drugs and crime, while two foreign male suspects were found to be positive for amphetamine and methamphetamine through urine screening. “Action was also taken under the Dangerous Drugs (Forfeiture of Property) Act 1988 where the police also seized a Toyota Alphard worth RM120,000 and six pieces of jewellery worth RM33,000. “All the suspects aged between 26 and 32 years old were remanded for seven days and the case was investigated undero Section 39B of the same act,” he said. Earlier, Hussein witnessed the handing over of duty of the Sungai Buloh district police chief between ACP Shafa’aton Abu Bakar who was promoted as Perak contingent headquarters management head and her successor Supt Mohd Hafiz Muhammad Nor at Sungai Buloh police headquarters. |
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