SHAH ALAM, Feb 9 — A former public university professor and an accountant fell victim to an online syndicate and suffered losses amounting to RM6.47 million, early this month.

SHAH ALAM, Feb 9 — Eleven bank security guards were arrested by the police in Sabak Bernam and Kuala Selangor on February 6 and 7 for violating licencing conditions by keeping firearms at home.

BUKIT MERTAJAM, Feb 9 — Five members of the police mobile patrol unit were charged in the Magistrate’s Court here today with extorting a factory worker on February 1.

BUKIT MERTAJAM, 9 Feb — A motorcyclist and his pillion rider in a viral video which showed them intimidating other motorcyclists by swinging a rope and trying to kick them on the Penang bridge were today fined RM2,000 each by the Magistrate’s Court for the offence.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 — Police arrested two men in Kampung KL Tin, Kalumpang, Kuala Kubu Bharu yesterday for suspected involvement in a drug trafficking syndicate since last December.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8  — Eight individuals, including a woman, all of them locals, have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in a non-existent job scam.

SEREMBAN,  Feb 7 — Police have arrested a 66-year-old babysitter on suspicion of  abusing an 11-month-old girl at a childcare centre in a housing estate in Nilai, near here, two days ago (February 5).

SUNGAI BULOH, Feb 7 — Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Allaudeen Abdul Majid has announced that the foreign individual implicated in a brawl at a fast-food restaurant in Bukit Bintang on  Sunday is currently under investigation pursuant to Section 507A of the Penal Code.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 7 — The police have launched a manhunt for four suspects in an armed robbery at a gold shop in the KIP Mall supermarket in Kota Warisan, Sepang, yesterday.

BANGKOK, Feb 7 — A Malaysian businessman, who is suspected of murdering his employee in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, was arrested at a Bangkok airport on Sunday and deported on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR, February 6 — The Sessions Court acquitted and discharged two friends of the charge of cheating, in connection with the distribution of 180,000 boxes of rubber gloves, worth over RM1 million, three years ago.

SHAH ALAM, Feb 6 — Police raided a container allegedly used as a drug processing lab in Kampung Bukit Cerakah, Klang, and detained two men on January 30.

PETALING JAYA, Feb 6 — A lorry driver was charged in the Magistrate's Court today with the murder of his 18-month-old nephew two weeks ago.

KUALA TERENGGANU, Feb 6 — A school headmistress has been remanded for six days over RM1.3 million in false claims concerning hostel students' food and drink supplies.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 — The High Court here today acquitted and discharged a lecturer of a public university of charges of drug trafficking and possession three years ago.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 4 — 10 police officers, including a sergeant from the Investigation and Traffic Enforcement Division of the Petaling Jaya Police Headquarters, are under investigation after the discovery of RM3,753 in cash in their possession during the Op Alkohol roadblock conducted early this morning.

IPOH, Feb 2 — A total of 131 illegal immigrants escaped from the men's block of the Bidor Immigration Detention Depot yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 — A total of 5,791 individuals, including three students, have been arrested for various drug-related offences during the nationwide three-day ‘Operasi Tapis Khas’ from January 29, police said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 1 — A British couple running the YouTube channel ‘TREAD the globe’ have confirmed communicating with the police over the investigation into a viral video which showed a policeman asking for an RM100 bribe to settle a speeding summons.

SEREMBAN, Feb 1 — A father pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here to the charge of raping his 16-year-old daughter in November last year.