Thanks to the close cooperation of various praesidia, the police caught a serial burglar after a year.
He was even imprisoned once during this period.
After a year-long investigation, the police in Ingolstadt * succeeded.
They caught a serial burglar who was up to mischief all over Bavaria.
Overall, this resulted in loot in the five-digit euro range.
Ingolstadt
- A crime novelist couldn't have written the story better.
Through hard investigative work and a little bit of luck, the
police found
a
serial burglar
.
The man is said to have committed 16 break-ins within a year.
One of these thief tours was his undoing - but only six months later.
Serial burglars caught: burglary in old people's home leads investigators on the right track
The 44-year-old suspect's series of burglaries began in October 2019.
Cases of break-ins in single-family houses, parish offices, club and old people's homes have been reported
throughout
Bavaria
.
The
police got stuck
with their investigation for
six months
.
Then in May of this year the turning point.
Another break-in in a retirement home.
Not far from the facility in
Odelzhausen
in Upper Bavaria
(district of Dachau), the officers caught a man who wanted to get away with burglary tools and cash, according to a press release from the
Upper Bavaria North Police
.
Had without knowing it because who nabbed the 44-year-old was in
custody
taken.
After several weeks in custody, there was an appointment for a detention test.
The court in
Munich
decided
to release the burglar against an obligation to report.
You didn't know who you were looking at.
The arrest of the 44-year-old German did
not go unnoticed in
Ingolstadt *,
just under 80 kilometers away
.
There officials from the police station 2 responsible for property crime have been dealing with the series of
burglaries across Bavaria
for six months
.
And it quickly became clear to her.
The case in
Odelzhausen
was only the tip of the iceberg.
Bavaria: serial burglars caught - meticulous police work leads to success
They were sure that the man who was
caught
in
the Dachau district had
struck even more often.
In cooperation with the police headquarters of Upper Bavaria South, Lower Bavaria, Upper Palatinate, Upper and Middle Franconia, they once again compared all traces that were left at the other crime scenes with the break-in in
Odelzhausen
.
Then they discovered that DNA traces could be secured if a single-family house was broken into in Stammham (Eichstätt district).
An appraisal found that they were a match for the 44-year-old.
The
police also found
clues about the suspect
at other crime scenes
.
A short time later, the
Ingolstadt public prosecutor
- which had since taken over the management of the entire proceedings - issued an arrest warrant for the man.
Officials from the Nuremberg Criminal Police Office * and plainclothes police officers from the Presidium in Lower Bavaria then arrested the 44-year-old from his brother in
Schöllnach
(Deggendorf district)
on October 22
.
Serial burglars caught in Bavaria: Loot in the five-digit euro range stolen
The alleged
serial burglar is
now
in the
Augsburg-Gablingen JVA
.
He is charged with a total of 16 break-ins.
Between October 31, 2019 and October 21, 2020 it is said to have struck in the districts of Eichstätt, Kelheim, Traunstein, Regensburg, Nürnberg-Land, Wunsiedel, Dachau and Pfaffenhofen.
The man's last
break
-in was in a parsonage in
Tittmoning
(Traunstein district) the day before he was arrested.
Overall, the 44-year-old stole loot in the lower five-digit euro range.
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