Six-month jail term for sheep thieves
The Criminal Court in Dubai on Monday sentenced three men to six months in jail each over livestock robberies. The convicts reportedly broke into a Dubai farm and fled with nine sheep.
The Asian defendants –a labourer, 27, his colleague, 34, and a driver, 25- stole the sheep from a farm in Tay area at night on Oct.11.2018 and sold some of them at a livestock market in Sharjah.
They took them to the market and sold them at Dhs3, 300. The driver explained that they sold five sheep at the market at Dhs1, 750 and sold the rest to people visiting the colleague’s workplace at Dhs350 each.
The labourer used metal scissors to cut a hole in the farm’s fence. He snatched the nine sheep worth around Dhs22, 500. The colleague and driver helped cram them inside an SUV, according to records at Al Hebab Police Station.
On the record, an Emirati warrant officer said that the sheep owner –an Arab man- contacted the police complaining that his sheep were missing and that he had come across footprints and tyre tracks around a hole cut in the fence.
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Four Asian visitors –the defendant, a compatriot colleague, burglar, and driver (all in their 40s)- will have to serve six month in prison each to be followed by deportation over robbery charges, the Criminal Court ordered on Monday.
The convicts allegedly broke into av ill ainju me ir ah using a hammer and decamped with five precious wristwatches, prosecutors explained on Monday.
They scaled the fence to the yard. The burglar hammered the villa’s rear door’s glass to make their way in. They broke into several rooms and smashed drawers open, the villa’ s owner, german ,34, complained to al bars ha police station. Prosecutors charged them with trespassing, damaging there ar door w or thdhs 2, 300 and robbing watches worth Dhs60, 000 on the evening of Dec.19.2018. They confessed to the charges. The police authorities conducted concerted investigations. DNA traces were examined. A source revealed the wanted men were residing in a villa in Warsan. A police team stormed the villa and arrested the visitors. One of them, the defendant, confessed and narrated that he and the others devised a plan to rob houses in Jumeirah area.
They monitored several villas and their choice fell on that of the manager as its lights were off.
He, the colleague and burglar stepped out of the getaway car and scaled the fence. The driver remained watching the situation in case someone was coming. The burglar hammered the sliding glass door. The others gave similar confessions. The lieutenant revealed police recovered the watches.