Kwai Chung Chaozhong Properties was infiltrated and stolen by thieves last Wednesday (21st). They stole property including about 300 spare keys for rental units. After investigation, the police arrested 6 people on suspicion of burglary or handling stolen goods, including two masterminds, and In a mini-storage of an industrial building suspected to be used by the culprits to store stolen goods, some of the stolen goods such as mobile phones and handbags were recovered.
However, the police have not recovered the backup keys for the time being, and further investigations are pending. It is not ruled out that more people will be arrested later.
The head of the first team of the Kwai Tsing District Crime Squad, Huang Lusha, explained the arrest this afternoon, saying that the police received a report at 12:00 noon last Wednesday (21st) that the property of Chaozhong, Castle Peak Road, Kwai Chung was burgled.
After in-depth investigations, the Kwai Tsing Police District has read a lot of closed-circuit television and intelligence analysis. Last Friday and Saturday (23rd and 24th), 5 men and 1 were arrested in Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi for crimes of entering the house and handling stolen goods Female (25 to 42 years old).
The arrested persons respectively reported that they were unemployed, employed on construction sites and transport workers, including two masterminds in the case.
Among the arrested, two local men aged 38 and 42 are suspected of burglary. They have each been charged with one crime of burglary. The case will appear in West Kowloon Magistracy tomorrow (26).
The remaining 32-year-old local woman, a 29-year-old man from the Mainland holding a two-way permit, and two local men aged 25 and 28, respectively, are suspected of handling stolen goods. They have been released on bail pending investigation and must report to the police in late August check in.
During the search, the police raided a mini-storage unit in an industrial building on Kwai Cheong Road, believed to be a place used by the culprits to store stolen goods, and recovered some of the stolen goods, including two mobile phones, a handbag, and a batch of documents stolen from Chaozhong Real Estate And cards.
As for the backup keys of a large number of stolen rental units, they have not been recovered.
The police had obtained the contact information of the owners of about half of the affected units through KC Properties and contacted them to explain the situation of the case.
For the remaining units involved, the real estate company still needs to compile information so that the police can contact all owners as soon as possible.
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In addition, for the affected units, the police made targeted deployments to mobilize mobile units to step up patrols in the affected areas. At the same time, they contacted the security of the affected building and the owners' corporation, and posted notices on the building.
The case is still under investigation, and the police are tracing the whereabouts of the lost property. It is not ruled out that more people will be arrested later.
The police emphasized that the crime of entering a house is a very serious crime. Once convicted, the maximum penalty is 14 years' imprisonment.
The KC Real Estate involved is located at Nos. 444-448 on Qingshan Road. The case was suspected to have occurred in the early hours of last Wednesday. Later, when the owner of the real estate shop returned to the shop at about 12 noon, he found traces of ransack and called the police.
After enumeration, KC Real Estate stolen about 300 spare keys for rental units. The buildings and units to which they belonged were also marked on the back of the keys. Tenement units located at Kwong Fai Wai, Wo Yi Hop Road and Kwai Chung Section of Castle Peak Road were also marked on the back of the keys.
In addition, more than 3,500 yuan in cash, 3 bank books, two mobile phones, a black handbag, a batch of promotional leaflets, documents and staff cards were also stolen from the store.
Burglar steals backup keys for 300 units in Kwai Chung Chaozhong Properties, police urge residents to change locks
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