Woman get shocking call while lodging Police Report (9th Apr 13 - Star)

A homeowner lodging a police report about a break-in at her neighbour’s house at Bukit Damansara got a shock when her maid called to say the robbers had broken into her own house.
The Filipino maid, who was home with her employer’s two sons, locked themselves in separate rooms upstairs.
Brickfields OCPD Asst Comm Muhammad Azlee Abdullah said police received a call about a car in the compound of an empty house on Persiaran Damansara Endah at 8am.
They went to the house and found a Mitsubishi Airtrek parked in the compound.
The car’s front and rear licence plates had white paste smeared across to hide the numbers and letters.
As policemen prepared to leave, the robbers, who were hiding in another neighbouring house, which was also unoccupied, seized the chance to strike the occupied house.
They were unaware that several policemen were still at the vacant house waiting for personnel to tow away their vehicle.
As one policeman went around the back for a quick look, he disco­vered the robbers breaking into the occupied house and alerted his colleagues.
At the same time, the maid had already spotted the robbers and locked herself and the younger boy, in his teens, in her room and alerted her employer, who was at the Travers police station, through her mobile phone.
The elder son, in his 20s, was sleeping in his room upstairs with the door locked during the incident.
All three escaped unharmed.
The robbers, believed to be locals, were eventually arrested and police recovered a pistol, as well as tools such as a crowbar and screwdrivers.
Two other men, acting as lookouts, were also picked up by police after they were found loitering in the area and passing themselves off as innocent bystanders.