Our reporter (Li Haifu) and correspondent (Tian Jingchao) report: One thief kept watch while the other stole, and the two petty thieves worked together to pry open a shop door to steal property. After hearing the commotion, an alert fireman guard shouted loudly, scaring away the thief keeping watch outside. "What's going on? Have we been discovered?" The thief inside the store didn't know that his accomplice had already fled, and even started talking to the arriving firefighters. Subsequently, the thief who entered the store was caught by the police.
At 1:30 AM yesterday, Zhu Xueliang, a soldier on guard duty at the Cha马路 Fire Station, heard some noise nearby. Zhu Xueliang astutely walked out of the guardhouse and looked around. He found a man smoking outside the "Cooked Tea Bar" and looking around from time to time, acting suspiciously.
"Usually this time is very quiet, why is the boss opening the store so early today? No, there must be a thief!" Zhu Xueliang raised his alertness and shouted loudly at the smoking man: "What are you doing!" Seeing this, the smoking man ran away immediately. Zhu Xueliang immediately ran over and found that the roller shutter door of the "Cooked Tea Bar" had already been lifted half a meter high, and someone inside was asking: "What's going on? Have we been discovered?"
After discovering that there was still a thief inside the store, Zhu Xueliang immediately pulled down the roller shutter door and then took out his mobile phone to call the police. At this moment, the thief inside the house realized something was wrong and tried hard to open the roller shutter door, but it was firmly held down by the firefighter.
Five minutes later, the police officers from the Danshui Pool Police Station arrived at the scene and took away the thief. The thief confessed that he and the escaped man were working together to commit theft, and the man keeping watch had fled the scene first. Currently, the police are investigating this case.
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A thief steals 20,000 yuan and hides in a residential area.
More than ten residents of the community help the owner "close the gate" to catch the thief.
Our reporter (Wu Bian) and intern (Chen Hongyan) report: Around 1 PM yesterday, a thief stole 20,000 yuan from a passerby in Hankou and fled into a nearby residential area. Upon hearing the news, more than ten residents of the community closed the gates of the neighborhood and searched for the thief with the victim. A few minutes later, residents guarding the gate recognized the thief pretending to be a tenant trying to escape from the community and successfully captured him.
Yesterday afternoon, I met the party involved, Mr. Hu, at the Hanxing Police Station after he finished giving his statement. Mr. Hu was still repeatedly thanking the residents of the Shengfeng Garden Community, "If it weren't for them, my 20,000 yuan would have been gone." It is understood that Mr. Hu is from Huangpi and runs a processing plant in Koukou. Around 1 PM yesterday, he just received 20,000 yuan as payment for goods on Xinhua Road and placed the money in the outer pocket of his clothes.
As Mr. Hu was walking towards his car by the roadside, he suddenly received a phone call. "At that time, I answered the phone while walking towards the car, and a man approached me, as if he touched me." Mr. Hu instinctively felt his clothes pocket: the 20,000 yuan was gone. Mr. Hu turned around and saw a shadow running into the Shengfeng Garden Community.
"I immediately called the driver in the car and chased after him. But because I wasn't familiar with the terrain of the community, I lost sight of the thief as soon as I entered the community." Mr. Hu asked the driver to guard the entrance while he entered the community alone to search.
According to Mr. Hu, many residents of the community learned about the situation and voluntarily informed him that there were two gates in the community. "The residents immediately closed the other gate and stationed people there." Many residents returned home to grab sticks and led Mr. Hu building by building to search.
"He seems to have run into Building 2." After receiving this information from a resident, everyone immediately surrounded Building 2. A few minutes later, a young man under 20 years old came down from upstairs, looking calm and trying to leave the community. The residents looked at this person and started discussing, "We don't seem to know this person, don't let him go yet, bring the victim over to identify him." Subsequently, they brought over Mr. Hu. Mr. Hu carefully identified him and confirmed that it was indeed the thief, so he reported it to the police.
Subsequently, the police arrived and found the 20,000 yuan stolen by Mr. Hu from the rooftop where the thief had hidden.