Sex worker caught in the act during Sandakan police raid

KOTA KINABALU: A woman pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution after she was caught in the act during a police raid in Sandakan. The woman, 26, was arrested along with her "agent" - an Indonesian woman named Lely Fiter, 50 - after police raided a premises in Taman Mawar around 3.30pm on July 29. According to the facts...

Ab Rahaman takes over as new Johor police chief

JOHOR BARU: Johor police welcomed a new top cop following a handover ceremony held earlier on Monday (Aug 4), marking the official appointment of Comm Ab Rahaman Arsad as the state’s new police chief. Comm Ab Rahaman, 58, previously served as Bukit Aman’s Management Department (services and staffing) deputy director before taking over the helm of...

IGP visits cop who was stabbed while on patrol

KUALA LUMPUR: Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Mohd Khalid Ismail has visited the police officer who was stabbed in the stomach during a crime prevention round in Pudu. He visited the injured policeman at Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz in Cheras on Friday (Aug 1). The country's top cop visit was to give moral support to the cop...

Neighbours report hearing loud arguments, child crying from house before murdered six-year-old disappeared

JOHOR BARU: What was initially thought to be a normal domestic dispute between a husband and wife has now taken a dark turn after the body of a six-year-old boy, reported missing last week, was found buried in Rompin, Negri Sembilan. Kamarudin Abdullah, 47, who stays near the victim’s family, said he often heard the sound...

Police to call more witnesses in Shila Amzah assault probe

KUALA LUMPUR: Police say more witnesses will be called before the investigation paper on the alleged assault involving singer Shila Amzah and another veteran artiste can be finalised. “We have submitted the investigation paper to the Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP), but it was sent back for further action. As such, we now have to investigate the...

Motoring influencer, brother, jailed and fined for false police report

MUAR: A motoring influencer and his younger brother were jailed for one month and ordered to pay a RM1,500 fine each by the Magistrate’s Court here for lodging a false police report about the former's disappearance. Tengku Nizaruddin Tengku Zainudin, 38, widely known online as Ija, and Tengku Abdul Aziz Tengku Zainudin, 30, both pleaded guilty...

Six Malaysians detained in Cambodia over drug case identified, say cops

KUALA LUMPUR: The police have identified the six Malaysians who were detained by Cambodian authorities on suspicion of attempting to smuggle nearly 62kg of cannabis to the United Kingdom via Phnom Penh International Airport on July 16. Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the suspects were all men aged between...

Woman jailed six months for concealing and dumping newborn’s body

KOTA KINABALU: A woman was jailed six months and fined RM2,000 after pleading guilty to intentionally discarding a newborn baby at a homestay here in 2023. Armaya Matjani, 22, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Dzul Elmy Yunus to the charge under Section 318 of the Penal Code for concealing the birth and secretly disposing of the baby's...

Penang Development Corp cooperating with police in MBI probe

GEORGE TOWN: Penang Development Corporation (PDC) will cooperate with Bukit Aman's anti-money laundering division on the investigation into the Mobility Beyond Imagination (MBI) investment scheme, says Chow Kon Yeow. The Penang Chief Minister said the Bukit Aman special task force visited PDC as part of a broader nationwide investigation into the MBI investment scheme. "This visit was...

Wreckage of crashed police helicopter to be retrieved July 17

ISKANDAR PUTERI: The operation to hoist the wreckage of the police helicopter that crashed into Sungai Pulai in Gelang Patah is expected to begin at 8am on Thursday (July 17). A multi-agency coordination meeting was held on Wednesday (July 16) co-chaired by Johor internal security and public order department chief SAC Muhd Zailani Abdullah and Subang...