Hamzah and his men showing the seized air guns and bakakuk.
LAHAD DATU: The district Police detained a local man, suspected of stealing copper wires, plates and rods from a project site at POIC, in Jalan Tengah Nipah.
District Police Chief, ACP Hamzah Ahmad said the suspect’s arrest has lead to the seizure of a homemade gun, locally known as Bakakuk and two air gun which believed used in illegal poaching activities.
Hamzah said on June 5, the supervisor of the project site in POIC lodge a police report after finding out that the gate to five POIC substations were destroyed and its transformer has been dismantled.
Inspection on the transformer found that the copper wires, plates and rods were missing believed to be stolen. The loss is estimated worth RM200,000.
“Acting on information, we have detain a local man at Kampung Keliatan, Jalan Tengah Nipah and seized two copper coils, a copper rod, three unit of copper metal, five unit of metal connectors (silver color), 13 unit of metal connectors (green-yellow color) and two units of Dinamo. All of the items were identified as tools used in the substations.
“During the raid, Police also found a Bakakuk, two air guns, seven sow bullets and ten shells of sow bullets inside the suspect’s bedroom,” he said.
According to Hamzah, further investigation found that the suspect perform the criminal activities in group and Police are currently in the efforts to trace down three other suspects who were still at large.
Hamzah said Police has also seized some of the coppers from the scrapmetal premise.
“The copper-theft case will be investigate under Section 379 of the Penal Code while the firearm case will be investigate under Section 8(a) of Firearms Act 1960,” he added.