Tuesday May 21, 2013
Five arrested in raid at gambling dens
IPOH: Police have arrested five men and seized 63 computers, believed to be for gambling activities, during a raid at several premises in Taman Cempaka here.
Ipoh OCPD Asst Comm Sum Chang Keong said police began their raid at five gambling dens last week.
“The four-hour raid ended at about 2am and we have taken back the computers to the district police station,” he said yesterday.
ACP Sum said the five men, aged between 25 and 35, were believed to be the supervisors of the premises and had been released on police bail.
On another unrelated incident, ACP Sum said three suspects had attempted to cart away an ATM in Chemor between Sunday night and Monday morning.
“Two of the suspects, decked in ski masks and long sleeves shirts, pried open the ATM’s outer cabinet using a crowbar but were unable to take away the money,” he said.
“They also failed to remove the ATM from the bank using a car, driven by a third suspect.”
