Police investigations over the last few months, reached its peak this week, when four persons wanted by the Police in connection with pick-pocketing were traced and arrested.
At the beginning of May this year, the Police said that it received multiple reports on a number of foreigners who were allegedly committing thefts from passengers on public buses and also on victims whilst waiting on the bus-stops.
The Police received a a large number of reports of of the type of theft, where suspects were stealing wallets or mobile phones from the victim’s pockets. Consequently, the Police said that they intensified their investigations and surveillance, resulting in four Romanians being traced, arrested and arraigned in Court, accused of committing 23 thefts during the last few weeks.
The Police said that the suspects that work as a group where stealing from victims whilst in a queue or in a crowd on the public bus or on the streets, particularly on a bus stop whilst passengers were getting on the bus.