Police arrest 17-year-old thief in Feydhoo

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Police arrested a 17-year-old boy in Seenu atoll Feydhoo who was stealing mobile phones.

According to Addu Police Station, they had been on the trail of the thief once it had been reported to the Police and had eventually arrested the boy while he was trying to snatch a mobile phone from an expatriate. The boy had so far stolen two phones from random people on the roads and had managed to sell off one of the phones for Rf1000. Police had managed to recover the phone and return it to the owner, Police said.

“The boy had snatched the Rf4000 phone from a teacher at Feydhoo School and then sold it off for Rf1000,” the Acting Head of Southern Regional, Sub Inspector Ahmed Mohamed said. “We have since then recovered the phone and handed it over to the owner. The investigation is still ongoing.”

Many residents in Feydhoo say that crime rates had skyrocketed during the month of Ramazan. Last week, some civilians had captured and shackled two young boys who had gone on crime spree, stealing from some houses and shops in Hithadhoo, before the Police had intervened and taken the thieves into custody. Other residents say that there is also a group of con-artists swindling money from unsuspecting people on the pretense that they were badly in need of money to help an ailing relative who was dying in a hospital.

Sub Inspector Ahmed Mohamed said that they had detained one man and questioned him in connection to the swindling cases and that no further swindling cases had been reported since then.