SHAH ALAM: Police are looking at all angles, including carelessness and inside job on a robbery which took place at a petrol station in Bukit Antarabangsa on Sept 6.
Selangor police chief Datuk Mazlan Mansor said they are confident of solving the case soon.
“We had earlier arrested four security guards to aid with police investigations. All four of them have been released on police bail, but we have some leads that we are looking into now,” he said.
Four security guards were picked up on Sept 7 to facilitate investigations into the robbery, which saw RM800,000 cash stolen from a petrol station in Bukit Antarabangsa.
The three men and a woman, aged between 21 and 33 were on duty, replenishing an automated teller machine at the petrol station when four men on two motorcycles pulled off the robbery.
One of the men armed with a pistol fired a warning shot in the air, before grabbing security guard’s pump gun. One of the guards was also reportedly struck on the head with the pump gun.
The men then forced the guards to hand over two bags containing the cash placed in the armoured van before they fled with the cash, while tossing the pump gun away at the roadside.
Meanwhile, on the murder of a police lance corporal who was found dead in the Pinggiran USJ police station on Aug 31, Mazlan said investigation is still ongoing.
“So far, there is no lead and we have not made any arrests yet,” he said after launching the handing over ceremony of a Proton Persona to the Selangor Police Contingent Headquarters Strategic Resources and Technology Department (StaRT) here today.
In an earlier report Mazlan reportedly said that investigators believe the attacker had gone to the station with the intention of causing harm to police.
He said investigations revealed that the victim had no “personal issues” that could have led to his murder.
Lance Corporal Valentino Mesa was found dead by colleagues at 3.30am after they returned from a routine patrol. He was slashed in the back of his head before being shot at close range in his back.
The assailant was believed to have used Valentino’s own service weapon to shoot him. The sidearm is still missing.
