BUKIT MERTAJAM – Police have brought down a syndicate stealing frozen meat with the arrest of four men in Senai, Johor, yesterday, and seizure of 395 boxes of frozen mutton and buffalo meat stolen from a shop in Taman Inderawasih, here, recently.
Seberang Prai Tengah police chief Shafee Abd Samad said the four men, aged between 27 and 37, were detained at 2.40pm yesterday, adding that officers also seized a lorry parked at a petrol station at the North-South Expressway (south-bound) in Senai.
“Police received a report from a frozen meat trader that his premises had been broken into on April 4, with the main door pried open and freezers containing mutton and buffalo meat worth RM250,000 emptied.
“Based on investigations, we arrested four men, including the leader, aged 32.”
Shafee said the group admitted to coming to the north to steal frozen meat to avoid police detection in Johor, as they have been caught for committing the same offence in the southern state.
All those detained have a criminal record, he added, and police also seized from them five mobile phones and equipment to break into premises.
He said police do not dismiss the possibility of the group also involved in stealing frozen meat from a number of premises in other places, including Kulim, Kedah.
The case is being investigated under Section 457 of the Penal Code – Bernama, April 15, 2021
