SHAH ALAM: Selangor police believe they have solved the case of the rape and robbery of an American schoolteacher, with the arrest of five more suspects early yesterday.

The suspects – comprising three men and two women – were picked up at two units of the Desa Mutiara Apartment in Taman Sungai Jeluk, Kajang about 6.30am.

A knife and six handphones were seized from the suspects aged between 28 and 39.

This brings to seven, the number of people nabbed in connection with the rape-cum-robbery involing the 24-year-old English Language teacher which occurred on March 11.

The arrest of the five was the result of the detention of a 47-year-old man and a 28-year-old housewife who were nabbed in Old Klang Road, Kuala Lumpur and Balakong on March 13 and 4, respectively.

Selangor CID chief SAC Mohd Adnan Abdullah said, initial police investigations revealed the suspects belonged to a syndicate of robbers targeting taxi passengers and other potential victims.

He told a press conference at the Selangor police contingent here yesterday, the state police had earlier set up a special task force to crack the case involving the American teacher.

“We are in the midst of checking whether the suspects were involved in similar taxi robbery-cum-rape cases in the Klang Valley,” he added.

On March 11, the American teacher boarded a taxi outside a shopping mall to return to her Damansara Perdana house but was instead, abducted and taken to a location in Sungai Pelek, Sepang and raped. — Bernama