IPOH, Oct. 27 -- Three 19-year-old men have been arrested in Penang over alleged arson and paint-splashing attacks on homes across several states, with police saying they were offered RM500 to RM1,000 per incident.

Perak police chief Datuk Mohd Alwi Zainal Abidin said Taiping police arrested the three men at separate locations in Penang between 5pm and 9pm on October 22, and had helped solve nine vandalism cases across four states: two in Perak, three in Kedah, two in Johor, one in Penang and one in Selangor.

"The first suspect, a college student, was arrested in Tanjung Bungah, where police seized a mobile phone, clothing believed to have been worn during an incident and a grey Proton X70," he told a press conference at Perak Police He...