A man in his 20s has been arrested over the alleged theft of a wallet from a vehicle at Taman Rakan, Cheras, on Wednesday.
The suspect was detained by a team from the Kajang district police headquarters’ Criminal Investigation Division at around 10pm following intelligence gathering and investigations.
Kajang district police chief Assistant Commissioner Naazron Abdul Yusof said police received a report about the incident at 10.15am on the same day.
The victim had noticed that the wallet, which was kept inside his vehicle, was missing at around 8am.
“Checks on CCTV footage showed an unidentified man entering the victim’s residential compound before taking the wallet,” he said in a statement on Thursday.
The wallet reportedly contained the victim’s identity card, ATM card and debit card.
A CCTV recording of the incident had earlier gone viral, showing a man trespassing into a residential compound and apparently attempting to break into a house before stealing an item from a vehicle.
Police also seized a Modenas Kriss motorcycle and a black helmet believed to be linked to the case.
The suspect was brought before the Kajang Magistrate’s Court on Thursday and remanded for one day to assist further investigations.
The case is being investigated under Section 379 of the Penal Code.
Members of the public with information about the incident are urged to contact investigating officer Sergeant Mohamad Zamri Mohamad Nor at 010-2848 761.
