PETALING JAYA, Nov. 13 -- Police arrested a local man just 12 hours after he allegedly tried to run over an officer with his car at a petrol station in Persiaran Raja Muda Musa, Klang, an incident that was caught on video and quickly went viral online.

Klang Selatan police chief Assistant Commissioner Ramli Kasa said the 33-year-old suspect was detained around 12.45am today in the vicinity of Bandar Bukit Tinggi following a tip-off.

Checks later revealed that the man had 20 previous criminal convictions and five drug-related records.

Ramli said the incident began on Wednesday evening when a police patrol came across a white Toyota Vios believed to have been involved in a robbery in Subang Jaya.

When the patrolling officers attempted t...