SHAH ALAM, Aug 16 — The police arrested a foreign national in connection with an attempted robbery at an ice cream shop in Taman Sri Muda on Monday (August 12).
Shah Alam police chief ACP Mohd Iqbal Ibrahim said the 39-year-old male suspect was detained at 4.15pm yesterday at an apartment unit in Puncak Alam.
The police also seized a weapon and the clothes he had worn during the robbery.
“The suspect will be remanded in the Shah Alam Court tomorrow (today) morning, and police believe they have solved the case with the arrest of the suspect,” he said in a statement yesterday.
Iqbal said the case is being investigated under Section 394 of the Penal Code, which, if convicted, could be punished with a maximum of 20 years in prison and a fine or whipping.
On Tuesday (August 13), media reports said that a woman running an ice cream shop in Taman Sri Muda was stabbed with a paper cutter during an attempted robbery the previous day.
— Bernama
