The Jerusalem District Police arrested a suspect, a foreign national from Sri Lanka who is staying in Israel illegally, on suspicion of kidnapping a woman for the purpose of imprisonment and extortion.
In the document that was distributed from those moments, the suspect was arrested by the Jerusalem Police Department detectives after he kidnapped a woman from Sri Lanka, imprisoned her in an apartment and demanded a ransom from the woman's mother.
The detectives located and released the woman unharmed.
Today (Friday) the suspect's detention at the court was extended by five days.
Yesterday, a foreign subject from Sri Lanka staying in Israel with a residence permit called the police and reported that her daughter (a 21-year-old foreign subject from Sri Lanka) had been kidnapped, and the kidnapper, whom she knew, demanded that she pay a ransom in exchange for her release.
The policemen at the house from where the stolen shirt was taken in Abu Ghosh,
During the investigation it became clear that the background was actually criminal.
The police opened a special police unit in the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office in an attempt to locate the woman and the suspect in the act, until finally the police investigators tracked down the suspect (36, a foreign national from Sri Lanka staying in Israel without residence permits).
Last night, during the night, the detectives of the Jerusalem Police Department arrived at the apartment where Abu Ghosh was staying.
There the police officers arrested the suspect and rescued the woman he kidnapped, while she is safe and sound and being held in one of the rooms of the house.
The suspect was taken for questioning at the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office on suspicion of kidnapping for the purpose of imprisonment and extortion, illegal stay in Israel, and more.
The woman was returned to the mother's lap, after her testimony was collected.
From a preliminary investigation, it was suspected that the suspect entered Israel illegally from the Jordanian border, and was also involved in the smuggling of additional foreign nationals without residence permits in Israel.
He also kidnapped the woman under various pretexts, and made her come with him to the apartment in Abu Ghosh, took her cell phone, put her in the room and held her there by force against her will.
This morning the arrested suspect was brought to the Peace Court in Jerusalem, where the police asked to extend his detention.
Their request was granted and his detention was extended by five days.
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