The suspect at the police station after he was arrested at his workplace.
KUCHING: A security guard was arrested by police yesterday for vandalising four electric massage chairs inside a shopping mall here to get his hand at the cash compartments.
The man was picked up from the office of a security firm in Batu Kawah around 12.45pm by personnel from the Central Police Station, led by station chief ASP Ricky Poh.
The incident was discovered in the morning when the shutter at the main entrance to the mall was found partially opened during the night.
A check revealed that the money compartments of four electric massage chairs in the lobby had been vandalised and emptied of cash.
A report was lodged by the mall’s head of security.
Police reviewed the mall’s closed-circuit television recording which showed the suspect going to the security guards’ room to get the keys to open the roller shutter.
They later recovered RM21 in one ringgit notes in the possession of the 29-year-old suspect and detained him in the lockup pending further investigation.
In another case, a 32-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were handed over to the police after they stole two rolls of mesh wire from the latter’s uncle in Kampung Semarang.
The incident took place around midnight when the complainant caught two persons stealing the wires from outside his house, and was shocked to find one of them was his nephew.
He decided to hand the pair over to the police as he believed they had been stealing wires from his house on numerous occasions.
During questioning, the suspects admitted stealing the rolls of mesh wire which they would sell to a man in a neighbouring village for RM50 apiece – the money used to fund their drug habit.