KUALA LUMPUR: A couple believed to be involved in stealing at least 31 cars used various master keys to steal cars and “hide” them at the parking lot of their flat to evade arrest for more than a year.
But their crime spree ended last Wednesday when they were spotted in a Proton Saga at the parking lot of a flat in Pandan Perdana here.
The couple, aged 41 and 32, is believed to be connected to more than 30 robbery and car theft cases in the Klang Valley.
Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah said the two would steal cars parked by the side of the road by using master keys and park the vehicles at the flat where they lived.
The car they were in when they were arrested was stolen during a robbery some months ago.
“They would sell the vehicles to their ready customers who in turn dismantled the parts and sold them as second-hand parts,” he told reporters yesterday.
Police also found a laptop, five electronic items, a bunch of car keys and a parang in the car.
They then led police to a unit in the flat and seized five handphones, watches, women’s accessories, 31 car registration cards, five passports from various countries, four parang and an axe.
DCP Tun Hisan also said police recovered nine stolen cars at the flat’s car park.
“Six of the nine cars were stolen in Selan-gor while the rest were from Kuala Lum-pur.”
The jobless couple’s modus operandi was to steal cars using a master key and at times, using weapons to rob their victims.
The two have been remanded until to- day.
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