By Felicia Wong

NINE men, including youths aged between 12 and 19 years old, were arrested in 24 hours for suspected involvement in five separate cases of loanshark harassment, said police.

In the first case, police attending to a dispute involving two youths noticed one of them behaving nervously. A check uncovered loanshark harassment-related paraphernalia, including a black marker and a mobile phone. Both youths were arrested, and further investigations led to three other accomplices.

Two runners collecting debt repayments on behalf of loansharking syndicates were also nabbed in two separate incident on the same day.

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