A former Dubai policeman is accused of joining hands with a friend to burgle a car spare parts shop though he was stopped and questioned by a police patrol at the scene of the crime just a little while earlier.
A police patrol suspected a car that stopped in the Naif area. When they saw that the driver was an ex-colleague who claimed he was waiting for his girlfriend, they left him. They learn later that their colleague had come there to steal from a nearby shop.
On August 12, SA, 53, Sudanese, owner of a car spare parts store, closed at 8.40pm and handed over the shop’s keys to RH to switch on the lights the next day if he reached there late.
“RH called me at around 5.30am telling me that the shop’s door was open. I asked him to check inside. He told me the safe box was missing, so I called the police. There were Dh8,000 in cash, two cheques totalling Dh25,000, a cheque book, four gold coins of five grammes each, my passport and the company’s seals.
The owner of the shop said he did not suspect his employee RH. Police reviewed camera footage of an adjacent shop. The camera captured two men wearing sports shorts, T-shirt and a cap entering the building while one stayed in a Toyota Corolla. The camera footage also shoed a police patrol approaching the driver of the car and talking to him after which the police patrol and the car moved away.
After some time, the same car came and stopped at the same place. Later, the driver of the car entered the building and he and another person were seen carrying a safe box which they put in the car and left the place.
“He was an ex-colleague at Naif police station. We knew him well. He told us that he is waiting for his girlfriend and then left the place,” a policeman on patrol told investigators.
When the two police officers saw the camera footage, they were sure that their ex-colleague was the same person who was carrying the safe with another man. Police arrested SM, 28, who admitted to being in the same area and to being stopped by a police patrol but denied committing the theft. He admitted to going into the building with his friend HA.
Police found out that HA, 26, had been detained by Al Qusais Police Station for another theft complaint. Confronting him, he admitted to burgling the auto spare parts shop with the help of SM.
“We stole the safe box which we broke in Al Muteena area and found in it Dh3,000 of which I got Dh1,000,” admitted HA.
The Court will reconvene on January 13.
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