Dubai Police arrest couple for stealing diamond ring worth Dh500,000

Police arrested a couple for stealing a diamond ring worth half-a-million dirhams from a shop in Madinat Jumeirah.

According to Dubai Police, the couple arrived at the jewellery shop and started looking around. After a while, they decided on a diamond ring costing Dh500,000.
They returned the jewellery box back to the salesman and the male customer said he would get the money from his sister. Sometime after the man went out to get the money, the woman too disappeared. When the couple failed to return after sometime, the salesman decided to keep the jewellery box back in the shelf.

But the salesman was shocked to find the box empty and the diamond ring missing.

The shopkeeper immediately alerted the police. The two were arrested 24 hours after the theft. The suspects have been referred to the Public Prosecution. Source

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Man gets one-year jail for stealing car

The Court of Misdemeanour recently sentenced a 23-year-old Sudanese, W.Y., to one year in jail followed by deportation for stealing a car.

As per the court records, W.Y. stole a Honda car belonging to M.M. which was parked near the residence of the latter in Al Satwa area on February 2 this year.

During the trial, W.Y. denied stealing the car saying that an Indian national had brought the vehicle to him for repairing.

Police officer M.S. testified that W.Y. had admitted during interrogation that he took advantage of the fact that the car engine was running and stole it.

'He drove it in Dubai and Ajman. Later it got stuck in a hole in Maliha area in Sharjah after the gear lever broke,' the officer said.

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Gang of four arrested for thefts in Bur Dubai

A gang of thieves, consisting of four Georgian men and a Russian woman, has been busted by the Dubai Police and stolen goods recovered from their possession.

The gang, according to police, had carried out eight thefts in a commercial area in Bur Dubai.

They had targeted shops that stocked jewellery, mobile phones, watches and crystalware and trading companies and small shops that had no security guards, police sources said.

On January 28, Bur Dubai Police Station received information about a series of thefts in a commercial centre in Bur Dubai area.

Investigations by CID officials revealed that in all the crimes the thieves had gone about their job in a highly professional manner without leaving any clues behind.

After sustained surveillance, CID teams managed to track down the thieves who lived in an apartment in the Budang area in Sharjah.

On January 30, around 4am, a Dubai Police team in coordination with Sharjah Police, raided the apartment and arrested four Georgian men, identified as B.T., B.M., J.K., and A.J., and the Russian woman, identified as A.S..

During the raid, stolen jewellery, cameras, mobile phones and watches were recovered.

The arrested have been referred to Dubai Public Prosecution for further investigations.

The police have asked the owners of shops and trading companies to identify their goods. Source

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Asian held for stealing Dh450,000 from car

A 39-year-old Asian expatriate was arrested on Sunday for allegedly stealing Dh450,000 from the car of an Emirati when he entered a supermarket in Digdaga area here after parking the vehicle.

Lieutenant-Colonel Salem Sultan Al Darmaki, who heads the Investigation Section at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), said the suspect, identified as M.G.A. from an Asian country, was arrested from his house and Dh300,000 of the stolen money seized.

According to Al Darmaki, the Emirati man informed the police last Wednesday that the money was missing from the car when he returned from the supermarket.

During investigation, the police learnt that the suspect had followed the Emirati man from a bank at Nakheel after seeing the latter withdrawing the amount. The official said the suspect broke open the door of the car and stole the money after the Emirati had gone to the supermarket leaving the cash in the car.

Undercover agents saw a woman depositing Dh85,000 at one of the ATMs in Ras Al Khaimah and suspected her to be the wife of the suspect. They followed her up to her house.

Later, the police raided the apartment and searched the place after interrogating the man and his wife. As much as Dh300,000 was found hidden behind the television set, Al Darmaki said.

The officer added that the suspect confessed to stealing the money. He kept Dh300,000, which the police recovered, in the house while Dh85,000 had been deposited in the wife’s bank account. He spent the rest of the money.

The accused has been referred to the Public Prosecution. Source

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Gardener held for stealing Dh1.5 million from villa

The Dubai Police on Tuesday arrested a Bangladeshi gardener for allegedly stealing Dh1.5 million from a villa in Al Garhoud.

On Monday, an Indian businessman called up the police to inform them that he found Dh1.5 million in cash kept in his cupboard missing after he returned from an evening outing with his family.

While enquiring about the people who had access to the villa, the businessman informed the police that a Bangladeshi national, M.Iqbal, 27, who was not on his sponsorship, worked for him as part-time gardener.

He was not seen in the evening when the family returned home.

The CID officials learnt that Iqbal had some friends and relatives working in Al Aweer vegetable market.

The police detained a relative of the gardener who later disclosed that Iqbal was in a farm in Dubai.

The police raided the farm on Tuesday and arrested the suspect and seized the bag of stolen cash.

During interrogation, he confessed to the crime. Soon after the family went out, he sneaked into the master bedroom of the villa and stole the money.

He said he committed the crime because the businessman had not paid him his salary for the past several months.

He was promised a salary of Dh1,000 per month.

Brigadier Khamis Mattar Al Mazina, Director of General Department of Criminal Investigatation, warned the villa owners not to keep valuables and large amounts of cash at home.

He also noted that most villa owners left the windows and doors unlocked, encouraging thieves.

He added that the residents should not trust their domestic servants completely and allow them to enter their rooms. They should also keep their valuables in banks or safer places. Source

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9 Indians jailed in Dubai for stealing

Nine Indian sailors were sentenced to three months in jail each for stealing a box of shirts from a ship berthed at a port in Dubai.
The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the sailors of theft and possession of stolen materials. They will all be deported after serving their terms.

Two of them had earlier pleaded not guilty and denied stealing the shirts. A third suspect confessed to stealing the shirts and attempting to rob other ships in the port.
Six others, including a captain, told the court they received the shirts as gifts "without knowing that they were stolen". Source

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Police recover Dh1.2 mln stolen from a bank staff’s car

Dubai Police have recovered Dh1.2 million stolen from the car of a Dubai-based bank employee, it was stated yesterday by Brigadier Khamis Mattar Al Mazina, director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation of Dubai Police.
The theft was committed last Monday, when the black Toyota Camry car was parked in the parking area of Hamrain Shopping Centre, Al Mazina said. One of the windows of the car had been broken open by the thieves.

Two Arab employees of a bank, A.M and M.M, were asked to deposit an amount of Dh2.1 million in various ATM machines of the bank and they first went to the Hamrian Centre. The car belongs to A.M.
The two men told the CID team that they had parked the car at around 10.20am on Monday, after which they went to the ATM machine in the shopping centre to deposit Dh900,000. When they returned, they found one of the car windows broken open and the remaining Dh1,200,000, which they had kept in the car, gone.
The police managed to identify the thieves, who had fled to a neighbouring country. With the coordination of the security authorities of the neighbouring country, Dubai Police managed to arrest two Canadian citizens of Iraqi origin, A.G and J.G.
During their interrogation, they told the police that they had been shadowing the two bank officials right from the time they had taken the money from the bank, and they followed them right to the parking area. Source

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