BUTTERWORTH: A 33-year-old man was today charged at the Magistrates’ Court here with impersonation and theft of a brand new patrol car from the district police headquarters here last week.
Ikan bilis seller Mohamad Azrullah Mohd Rodzi, of Kubang Semang, pleaded not guilty to six counts of theft and impersonation before magistrate Kalaiarasi Muniandy today.
He was charged with three counts of theft and three counts of impersonating a policeman. According to the charges read in court today, he fled with a one-month-old Honda Civic 1.8S patrol car at 9.15pm on Oct 24, attempted to rob a mobile phone seller and robbed another phone seller an hour later at Tasek Gelugor.
It was revealed that the woman who was with him when he drove off to Shah Alam was a mobile phone sales girl from the second shop he had robbed. He is accused of stealing two phones from her.
Azrullah’s lawyer Muhaimin Hashim requested the court to send his client for a psychiatric evaluation.
Kalaiarasi allowed the request, ordering Azrullah to be admitted to the Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta in Perak for a month. She also offered RM17,500 in total bail with three sureties on all the charges laid against him. She set Nov 27 for mention.
Azrullah was charged with stealing a Honda Civic 1.8S with the registration plate VEN 6940 owned by the police at the patrol car unit at the North Seberang Perai police headquarters in Kepala Batas at 9.15pm on Oct 24.
He was also charged with the attempted robbery of Tang Chye Hong, 49, a mobile phone seller at 2377, Jalan Permatang Manggis, Tasek Gelugor here on the same day at about 10pm. He had also attempted to arrest Tang in the same incident.
Azrullah faces another charge of stealing an iPhone 8 Plus and a Vivo phone from salesgirl Nurul Atieka Mazlan, 21, at Kedai Vivo Pokok Sena, Tasek Gelugor here, also about 10pm.
He was also charged with three counts of impersonating a public servant under Section 170 of the Penal Code in all three of the incidents above.
Azrullah was charged under Section 379A of the Penal Code for motor vehicle theft, which carries a maximum seven-year jail sentence or a fine upon conviction.
The attempted robbery charge is under Section 393 of the Penal Code, which carries a maximum seven-year jail sentence or a fine upon conviction.
The charge of theft over two mobile phones is under Section 379 of the Penal Code, which carries a maximum seven-year jail sentence, a fine and whipping upon conviction. - FMT
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