They assaulted a security guard and robbed a site under construction

Dubai Criminal Court orders the imprisonment and deportation of the "cable gang"

The Dubai Criminal Court has ruled a year in prison and deportation against five defendants who formed among them a gang specialized in stealing electrical cables, and they robbed a site under construction belonging to a company, after they attacked the guard, assaulted and tied him, and stole cables worth 37,800 dirhams, as well as It decided to fine them for the stolen items

One of the defendants admitted in the case that he participated with the rest of the gang members in the robbery operation that the first accused had planned, and they went to the company’s site and participated in tying the guard and covering his face, then he watched the place and the rest of the gang took over the stealing of the cables, then they participated in loading them on a car and leaving the site, Then they sold the stolen items for 22,000 dirhams, and his share of it was 3,500 dirhams.

For his part, the victim guard said that he was guarding the place where the company placed its belongings, which is a sandy yard near the Remraam residential complex, in preparation for using it to decorate the street, and while he was sitting he was surprised by masked people attacking him and they caught him and covered his eyes, then they carried him To a place near the objects and wrapped his mouth with a piece of cloth because he tried to talk to them.

After about an hour, two of the defendants came and removed the mask from his mouth, drank water, then threatened to kill him with a hard object from his face to his neck if he spoke, and he was afraid and silent, until a driver from the company came to him after about four hours and saw him lying on the ground, tied, and he informed the officials who called the police .

For his part, an engineer in the company said that the driver called him and told him that the guard was found in a bad condition, so he informed the police and then went to the place to find the police preceded him, and they were able to arrest five of the defendants who confessed in detail to their crime, and instructed the police to the crime scene and how to carry it out, and the mechanism Selling the cables and distributing the proceeds of the theft to each of them according to their role, and a small portion of the amount they obtained was recovered.

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