Three held in Dh3.5m jewellery heist in Naif

[email protected] (Khaleej Times)
December 16, 2011

gold_copy_copy

Dubai, December 16: The Dubai Police have achieved a breakthrough in the Dh3.5-million jewellery heist that took place in the Naif area of Deira in July with the arrest of three Kosovar suspects.

The trio was arrested when they returned to Dubai to take away the booty they had left buried in a graveyard near Baniyas Square. The police recovered the jewellery.

The robbery happened on July 20 night.

Colonel Ahmed Al Marri, Director of the Criminal Investigation Department, said the police team, including forensic experts, found that the shop owner had kept the jewellery in the shelves instead of the safe locker at night. The thieves used a ladder kept in the dark behind the building to climb on to the roof and enter the shop through a bathroom window. They escaped with all gold ornaments in the shelves. The police found out that some tall and well-built men were seen around the shop by witnesses and three of them were seen in the CCTV footage. The police later learnt that three of them from Kosovo had left the country nearly eight hours after the heist. They had criminal records.

The records at entry and exit points showed that the three had not carried the jewellery when they left the country. The police alerted all entry points in the country and waited for them to return.

On November 11, two of the suspects, identified as A.H. and M.H., reentered the country. The police put them under surveillance. On November 30, the police noticed the third suspect leaving a hotel. When he reached the graveyard near Baniyas Square, he went inside and came back after a few minutes carrying a bag. He returned to the hotel where he was arrested from the lobby. The other two were arrested later.

The three have been referred to the public prosecution and the police are chasing a fourth suspect who has travelled to Europe.

Brigadier Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Director of the General Department of Criminal Investigation, said the shop owner had committed a mistake by leaving the jewels in the shelves though he had a safe locker. Besides, the alarm system in the shop was not working at the time.

He called on the shop owners to be careful and ensure that they have kept the jewels in the safe lockers.

Comments

Add new comment

  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
July 19,2020

Thane, Jul 19: A 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing his wife after picking up a fight as he did not like the food she cooked, Thane police said.

Sachin Godane, a resident of Gaikwad Pada in Ambernath, locked his two children and an aunt in one room of the house on Friday afternoon and brutally beat up his wife Chandrakala (28) with a log and then strangled her, said Assistant Inspector JB Bhoyer of Shivajinagar police station.

Godane has been remanded in police custody for four days, he added. 

Comments

Add new comment

  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
July 4,2020

Kolkata, Jul 4: Two people were killed and around four injured when the bombs they were allegedly manufacturing went off inside a house in Murshidabad district, a senior police officer said on Saturday.

Their identities were yet to be established as the condition of those injured and undergoing treatment at a hospital was still "critical", he said.

The thatched roof of the house, where they were allegedly making bombs, also blew off in the explosion, which occurred at Suti town in Jangipur subdivision of the district around 9:00 pm on Friday, the officer said.

The house has been damaged completely, and its owner is on the run, he said.

As of now, the wife of the house owner is being questioned in connection with the incident, the officer added.

Comments

Add new comment

  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.
News Network
May 9,2020

Shillong, May 9: The poisonous mushrooms that killed six people at a remote village in Meghalaya's West Jaintia Hills district have been identified as Amanita phalloides, commonly known as the 'Death Cap', a senior official said on Saturday.

Six people, including a 14-year-old girl, of Lamin village along the India-Bangladesh border in Amlarem civil sub-division died after consuming wild mushrooms they collected from a nearby forest late last month.

The wild mushroom has been identified as Amanita phalloides and is hepatotoxic as it directly affects the liver, state Director of Health Services (MI) Dr Aman War told PTI.

He said it has been established after an investigation that the cause of the deaths was the poisonous mushrooms.

At least 18 persons from three families were taken ill after consuming the mushrooms.

The symptoms after consuming the poisonous fungus include vomiting, headache and unconsciousness, the senior doctor said.

Most of those taken ill, including a pregnant woman, have already recovered and gone home. Therefore, people can survive as it depends on the amount of poison that you have consumed. Only one person was unaffected, maybe he did not consume much, he said.

Three people are still undergoing treatment and are recovering. Two of them are at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) and one in Woodland Hospital, Dr War said.

He said the health department can only appeal to the people, especially those in the rural areas, to refrain from eating wild mushrooms, while the horticulture department should take measures to create awareness.

Comments

Add new comment

  • Coastaldigest.com reserves the right to delete or block any comments.
  • Coastaldigset.com is not responsible for its readers’ comments.
  • Comments that are abusive, incendiary or irrelevant are strictly prohibited.
  • Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name to avoid reject.