Gang arrested for burglaries
The Criminal Investigation Department of Dubai Police has arrested an Asian gang involved in a number of burglaries of commercial stores in various parts of Dubai. The gang, say police sources, had hidden the stolen items in a rented factory in Umm Al Quwain.
The police, following a recent spate of theft reports, launched an intensive search to try and trace the culprits. The CID set up a team of crack sleuths to pursue the investigation of these cases. The latest theft report was received from Al Ghusais police station regarding robbery in a store in Ghusais Industrial area. The modus operandi of the crime was similar to the other thefts reported earlier.
When the police rushed to the crime site, the store official told the police he had, as usual, arrived in the morning to open the store. But he could not do so because the locks had been changed. After getting the manager's permission to break the locks, he discovered that 378 cartons of shoes worth Dh 200,000 had been stolen by unknown miscreants.
On September 7, the police arrested the driver of a heavy-duty vehicle that had been used to transported the stolen shoes. On being questioned, the driver admitted the consignment had been taken to a store in Umm Al Quwain .
In coordination with the Umm Al Quwain Police, the investigation team raided a store in a factory and arrested three labourers who were repacking the shoes into new cartons. The labourers claimed they had been hired for the job at Dh 30 per day.
However, the police set a trap and arrested a man named Naseer. As it turned out, Naseer was wanted by the Dubai Police in connection with some previous cases as well, but had fled the country using a fake passport. But he had later returned to the UAE, yet again on a fake passport it is suspected.
The next day, the police arrested another gang member, 27 year old Mohammed Kunhi, from the Murraqabat area in Dubai.
During the police interrogation the suspects admitted they had burgled six stores. Explaining their modus operandi, they said they first broke the original locks and replaced it with news ones. Afterwards, they rented a heavy-duty vehicle and transported the stolen goods to a rented factory premises in Umm Al Quwain. Since, they used the original set of keys of the new locks, no suspicions were ever raised that a crime was in the process of being committed. Source
The police, following a recent spate of theft reports, launched an intensive search to try and trace the culprits. The CID set up a team of crack sleuths to pursue the investigation of these cases. The latest theft report was received from Al Ghusais police station regarding robbery in a store in Ghusais Industrial area. The modus operandi of the crime was similar to the other thefts reported earlier.
When the police rushed to the crime site, the store official told the police he had, as usual, arrived in the morning to open the store. But he could not do so because the locks had been changed. After getting the manager's permission to break the locks, he discovered that 378 cartons of shoes worth Dh 200,000 had been stolen by unknown miscreants.
On September 7, the police arrested the driver of a heavy-duty vehicle that had been used to transported the stolen shoes. On being questioned, the driver admitted the consignment had been taken to a store in Umm Al Quwain .
In coordination with the Umm Al Quwain Police, the investigation team raided a store in a factory and arrested three labourers who were repacking the shoes into new cartons. The labourers claimed they had been hired for the job at Dh 30 per day.
However, the police set a trap and arrested a man named Naseer. As it turned out, Naseer was wanted by the Dubai Police in connection with some previous cases as well, but had fled the country using a fake passport. But he had later returned to the UAE, yet again on a fake passport it is suspected.
The next day, the police arrested another gang member, 27 year old Mohammed Kunhi, from the Murraqabat area in Dubai.
During the police interrogation the suspects admitted they had burgled six stores. Explaining their modus operandi, they said they first broke the original locks and replaced it with news ones. Afterwards, they rented a heavy-duty vehicle and transported the stolen goods to a rented factory premises in Umm Al Quwain. Since, they used the original set of keys of the new locks, no suspicions were ever raised that a crime was in the process of being committed. Source
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