Egyptian waylaid and robbed at knifepoint

KUWAIT: An Egyptian expat driving his trailer was waylaid by a number of people in a Land Cruiser vehicle in the Al-Naseem area near the Rhayya roundabout, and robbed at gunpoint, security sources said. The Egyptian man told the Jahra police that when he was driving the trailer near the said roundabout, four persons in a white colored Land Cruiser car flagged him down.

While the expat was not able to note down the number of the car, he described one of his tormentors as national dress wearing man who was driving the vehicle. He said this man came out brandishing a pistol that he flaunted in his face. Another occupant of the Land Cruiser who was carrying a stick and dressed in sports gear pinned him against the trailer and asked him to keep his hands up. Two more men stood at the back watching the road. He claimed he was beaten and the men even threatened to kill him. They snatched away KD107 or 105 from him, taking the money from his valet left in the trailer’s cabin.

The pistol-carrying man came out of the trailer after searching it and proceeded to frisk the Egyptian along with his friend. They took away his cell phones but when they saw a car approaching, they returned the phones and left the spot. A young man stopped by and bought something from a mobile grocery. Later, they left in their Land Cruiser car.

A case of armed robbery was filed under the number 104/2013 and criminal investigators were asked to check the trailer.

Iranian arrested

Security men arrested an Iranian expat found under the influence of drugs in Qurtuba and recovered from his person an envelope containing a substance suspected to be heroin. The man was sent to the drug enforcement agents.

The Farwaniya police, in cooperation with the Ministry of Communication, carried out an inspection campaign at ten places to catch those responsible for theft of international calling facility at Al-Farwaniya, Khaitan and Jleeb Al-Shoyoukh. About 22 expats availing of these stolen services at shops specifically dealing in the nefarious activity were caught, along with tools used in stealing the signals.

Insulted

An officer of the rank of First Lieutenant complained to officers at a police station at Hawally, accusing a girl of having insulted him and another citizen of intervening in his work and stopping him from performing his duty.

The officer said that he stopped a girl opposite a cafe, and asked for her identification documents, but the girl ignored him and went into the cafÈ after telling him to go away. The officer said he followed her into the cafe and asked the girl to accompany him to the patrol officers in order to take her to the police station but she refused.