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ABOVE & BELOW: The PBB Bank in Taman Cheras robbed the 2nd time; No Shots were fired.

Two robbers wearing full faced helmets struck the PBB Bank in Taman Cheras branch at about 3.58pm just before closing and escaped with RM 80,000 just within 90sec. They seized the security personnel pump gun and ordered the bank staff and customers to remain silent. No shots were fired.

The suspects were believed to be in their 30’s escaped on a motor-cycle after ordering staff to fill up two plastic bags with money. This is the second time the bank was robbed. In December last year, robbers escaped with RM 150,000.

ABOVE: The guard's gun being abandoned by the robbers and BELOW: Police personnel dusting for finger prints from the glass door

The KL CID Chief said the Police are investigating the incident based on the CCTV footage and on finger prints lifted from the glass doors.

Anyone who have information can contact Rakan Cop at 03-2115-9999 or at any police station

And more details from STAR

RM80,000 gone in 90 seconds as robbers strike bank; By MARC LOURDES

KUALA LUMPUR: Ninety seconds – that’s all the time it took for two robbers to “withdraw” RM80,000 from a bank in Cheras in a brazen hold-up.

This was the second robbery at the Public Bank Taman Cheras branch in less than a year, only it was in record time in yesterday’s instance.

Acting City CID chief Asst Comm Ramli Din said the men, armed with revolvers, made it in the nick of time just before the bank closed at 4pm.

“They wrested a shotgun from the lone security guard before vaulting over the counter and ordering the teller to dump cash into plastic bags they brought along,” he said.

In full view of the 10 customers and 13 staff members, the robbers, dressed in dark jackets and wearing full-face helmets, grabbed the bag with RM80,000 in it and escaped through the front door to an alley behind, where they dumped the shotgun in a drain.

They then made their getaway on a motorcycle.

“The whole incident was over in 90 seconds,” said ACP Ramli, who added that no shots were fired and no one was injured.

Police are studying images of the robbers from the bank's CCTV cameras. A forensics team also lifted fingerprints from the bank counter and glass door.

ACP Ramli said police have not ruled out the possibility of the robbers being the same men involved in the hold-up at the Public Bank Sungai Chua branch earlier this month.

In that incident, pistol-toting robbers in full-face helmets took only two minutes to disarm a security guard of his shotgun before escaping with RM114,000.

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ABOVE: Police deisplaying the assortment of items and drugs seized and BELOW: The vacuum cleaner where the gun and bullets were found

3 men were detained (including a former ISA detainee) in a raid in an apartment in Pulau Pinang on Wednesday afternoon for criminal activities. The three were between 25 – 48 years in ages and were remanded for 12 days or investigation under section 8 of the firearms act (1971) and section 39 (B) of the dangerous drugs act.

ABOVE: The 8mm revolver recovered and BELOW: The 27 shinny brass bullets

The police seized a cold revolver with 27 round of ammunition hidden in a vacuum cleaner in the 3 pm raid. Also 3000 ecstasy pills worth RM56,000, a proton saga aero back, and fake car registration plates believed to have been used by the trio for criminal activities.

ABOVE: The assortment of drugs seized and BELOW: Closer look at some of the Esctasy pills

All the three detained were from Johore.

And details from STAR,

Trio held for trafficking and armed robbery

PENANG: Three men said to be involved in trafficking of Ecstasy pills and a series of armed robberies in the country were arrested in Bandar Baru Air Itam here.

State CID chief Senior Asst Comm II Azman Yusof said an automatic pistol with 27 rounds of ammunition and 2,843 Ecstasy pills worth more than RM70,000 were seized.

He said police had been monitoring an apartment from where the suspects had been operating for some time.

At about 3.30pm on Wednesday a team led by Chief Insp Samsuddin Mamat raided the apartment and detained the suspects.

“The three men, aged between 25 and 46, had since been remanded for a week by a magistrate's court pending investigations,” SAC Azman told a press conference yesterday.

He said that one of the suspects was an ex-Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee while another was wanted by Yong Peng police in Johor in connection with an arson case in 2004.

“The trio are believed to be part of a larger group of traffickers and robbers,” he said.

“We are now trying to determine the source of the firearm and Ecstasy pills meant for distribution nationwide,” he added.

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