Three arrested for theft from villas

dubai — Three Chinese suspects were arrested by the Dubai Police for committing a series of thefts from vacant villas. The police also raided their accommodation and recovered the stolen goods hidden inside the false ceiling and handed them over to its rightful owners.

A complaint was lodged by a UAE national about a theft at his villa in Al Warqa. He said that on a Thursday, he left home with his wife and maid to attend the wedding of his brother-in-law and returned at 3am.

“When my wife tried to open the door she found it open and when I reached the bedroom, I found the safe was broken. On the ground floor, a bathroom window and a door was also broken,” he said.

He added that the thieves stole Dh100,000 cash and jewellery worth Dh300,000 along with 12 valuable watches.

The police formed a team that found that the thieves used the same theft methods in all thefts that occurred recently. They had received several robbery complaints from owners of villas in Bur Dubai, Al Barsha and Rashidiya.

The robberies took place in vacant villas at night.

The team managed to pin down two suspects living in International City and found the third suspect later.

During the police interrogation, they confessed they had rented a car to go to Al Warqa area and saw a villa with no lights and planned the robbery for the next day. They parked their car behind the villa and climbed the wall.

One of them broke the window of the bathroom and the second suspect broke another door. They searched the ground floor and found nothing and went to the first floor and broke the safe to steal the money and jewellery. They said they gave the 12 watches to a fourth fugitive suspect to sell them back home.

They said they divided the money and jewellery and went to an exchange office in the Naif area.

However, the police recovered it along with the jewellery found in their possession. The three suspects who confessed to the crime to the police are now being interrogated by the Dubai Public Prosecution.

When my wife tried to open the door she found it open and when I reached the bedroom, I found the safe was broken.”

The complainant