KUALA LUMPUR: Police have picked up a 17-year-old boy to facilitate a probe into a brazen armed robbery in Ara Damansara last Wednesday.
Petaling Jaya police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Zani Che Din said the suspect was arrested at a flat unit in Bandar Kinrara, Puchong at 10am today.
“He will be taken to court tomorrow for remand," he said in a statement.
The teenager was said to have gone into hiding after the video clips of two women allegedly being mugged by an armed robber in Ara Damansara started to circulate on social media.
In the 3.40am incident last week, the two women were robbed of RM1,000 in cash, alongside their valuables and personal documents.
Following the incident, police had begun gathering intelligence which led them to intensify patrol and surveillance around the Desa Ria area.
At 5.30pm the same day, a police patrol team spotted a white Honda Accord which bore the same plate number as the car involved in the robbery, at the Desa Ria area.
The team ordered its driver to pull over but he rammed into a car in front before reversing and ramming a police car behind, before it sped off.
Police gave chase for about two kilometres to Desa Mentari area, where the Accord driver, again, deliberately rammed into the right side of the police car which prompted police to open fire.
The Accord driver, however, managed to speed away before abandoning the car not far away from the scene.
Checks showed the vehicle was hijacked from a civil servant during a robbery at Jalan SS4B/10 on Sept 23.
Police found nine packets of drugs believed to be heroin in the Accord and a parang in the vehicle.
The cases are being investigated under Section 392 and 397 of the Penal Code for armed gang robbery, Section 307 of the Penal Code (attempted murder) and Section 39A of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 for drugs possession.