KULAI: A man who was identified by his own mother as one of the main suspect in a robbery at a jewellery kiosk in Tesco Kulai has gone into hiding.
Kulai deputy district police chief deputy superintendant Tok Beng Yeow said police had contacted the suspect’s mother and even gone to their house but the wanted man had failed to return home since pulling off the robbery.
"We are still searching for him but it is just a matter of time until he is located,” he said.
It was reported that a businessman lost almost RM20,000 worth of silver jewelleries which he kept in locked cases and stored at his trading kiosk after closing hour last Friday.
A CCTV recording however captured the suspect and two others breaking into the kiosk and stealing the jewellery.
Following the incident the businessman shared the CCTV recording on his Facebook and offered a RM1,000 reward to anyone who could offer information about the robbers.
Days later, a woman, claiming to be the mother of one of the three individuals, contacted the businessman and alerted him that her son was one of the culprits.
The woman told the businessman that she wished for her son to be caught and sent to a correctional facility as it was not the first time he had committed a crime.
