Negeri Sembilan police chief Noor Azam Jamaludin said today the suspects, three men and two women in their 30s and 50s, were picked up around Nilai late on Wednesday.
“All of them are being held on remand up to Sunday. We are investigating whether they were directly involved in the robbery or were accomplices,” he told reporters after the new Negeri Sembilan police deputy chief, Mohamad Mat Yusop, took office today.
Mohamad, who was formerly the principal assistant director (human resource policy division) career development at the Management Department, Bukit Aman, has switched jobs with Muhamad Zaki Harun.
Azam said Isa no longer lived at the house, which was now occupied by his children and grandchildren.
The house was in an isolated area and was the target of robbers, he said, adding that a similar incident occurred in August 2013.
In the robbery last Wednesday, which occurred at 4.55am, three foreigners wearing masks and armed with machetes broke into the house and fled with RM14,900 in cash, jewellery and watches.
They tied up two of the three adults but did not disturb the children who were asleep then.