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EMPTY shelves at mini markets and a shortage of food aid now fill the days of about 10, 000 people within the enhanced movement control order in Bayan Lepas, Penang.
PUTRAJAYA: The enhanced movement control order will be enforced in 13 localities around Pekan Bayan Lepas in Penang beginning June 4 after a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases.
Fine feathers: A police officer looking at some of the confiscated birds in Penang. ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star
BUTTERWORTH: When they commit a crime, they not only cart away jewellery and other valuables from the victims’ houses, but birds, too.
Seven birds of protected species worth about RM2,000 each were seized from two men during a police raid at a house in Kampung Baru Mak Mandin, Butterworth.
Police found two sun conures, a black-capped lory, two pigeons, an African gray parrot and a rainbow lorikeet kept in three cages at about 10.30am last Thursday.
They also seized items like chainsaws, drills, a compressor and various light industry machines from the men, aged 26 and 27, who were said to be involved in at least four house break-ins in Butterworth and Mak Mandin areas.
Among the items seized were seven protected bird species worth more than RM20,000.
North Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Noorzainy Mohd Noor the suspects, aged between 21 and 49, were nabbed in two separate locations in Butterworth during Ops Pintu on Thursday (April 15) at about 10am. Acting from information received from the public, a team of police from Butterworth police station led by Inspector Mohd Shaazuani Razali raided a house at Kampung Perlis and detained five men, he said.
ACP Noorzainy said following the arrest, police detained another two men at Kampung Baru Mak Mandin where police discovered an array of items at the house.