Vinnytsia police detained a group of apartment thieves suspected of committing crimes across Ukraine
On December 1, employees of the criminal police with the involvement of soldiers of the special unit KORD in the city. Vinnytsia detained two attackers who are involved in a large number of apartment thefts on the territory of Vinnytsia region and other regions of the country. Only in m. Vinnytsia detainees were involved in about 30 thefts from apartments. Thieves were detained when they tried to escape in a car immediately after committing another theft. One of the intruders has been repeatedly convicted of property crimes.
According to the head of the GUNP in the Vinnytsia region Ivan Ishchenko, during the inspection of the Daewoo Lanos car on which the intruders were moving, the police seized jewelry, money, watches stolen from the homes of the victims, keychains, screwdrivers, gloves, mobile phones and other physical evidence indicating their criminal activity.
Detainees are 51-year-old resident of Donetsk region and 43-year-old Vinnytsia resident. The eldest of the men has a criminal record for apartment theft. It was he who, by picking up the key, penetrated the victims' dwellings, and his accomplice waited at the entrances of the houses and communicated by phone when someone came in.
During the authorized search in the Vinnytsia apartment rented by the intruders, investigators seized mobile phones, SIM cards of various mobile operators, keys, balaclavas, cash in foreign currency and hryvnia, jewelry, coin collections.
The intruders are detained in procedural order and placed in a temporary detention facility. The issue of notifying them of suspicion of committing crimes stipulated in Part 3 of Article 185 (theft combined with penetration into housing) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is resolved. Detainees face punishment - up to 6 years in prison. At the moment, the issue of choosing a preventive measure for them is being decided - detention.
Department of communication of police of Vinnytsia region
