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Male and female thieves exploded Kwun Tong mini warehouse and empty warehouse to put stolen goods, police seized 700,000 treasures such as stamps

2022-04-28T06:05:32.862Z


From February to April this year, male and female thieves repeatedly burgled three mini warehouses in Kwun Tong District, stealing items worth 700,000 yuan, including collectible stamps worth 600,000 yuan. 2 people even occupy some unused mini warehouses


From February to April this year, male and female thieves repeatedly burgled three mini warehouses in Kwun Tong District, stealing items worth 700,000 yuan, including collectible stamps worth 600,000 yuan.

The two of them even occupied some unused mini warehouses to place stolen goods.

After investigation, the police arrested a man and a woman at a unit in Yau Ma Tei the day before yesterday (26th).

The police have charged 2 people with the crimes of "burglary", "trafficking of dangerous drugs" and "possession of a tool for taking drugs", and they have appeared in the Kwun Tong court this morning.


Zhen Haoyan, senior inspector of the Kowloon East Regional Crime Squad, explained the case that the police received 10 cases of burglary of mini-storages from February to April this year, and the cases were mainly concentrated in 3 mini-storages in Kwun Tong District.

The thieves involved will forcibly open the main door of the mini-storage, and then use hard objects to break the lock of the mini-storage to burglary. The thieves stole about 700,000 yuan in total, mainly including commemorative stamps, models and jades, etc. The single largest loss is 60 yuan in value. million dollar stamps.

The Kowloon East Regional Crime Squad took over the investigation. However, because the victim usually only used the mini-storage to store items and did not go to the mini-storage frequently, the case could not be discovered early, which made it impossible for the police to lock the time of the incident and increase the difficulty of tracing.

After intelligence collection and analysis, the police finally identified a man and a woman as the target. It is believed that they would resell the stolen items for profit, and would occupy some unused mini-storages to store stolen goods.

On the morning of the day before yesterday (26th), detectives conducted an ambush operation and arrested a man and a woman at a unit in Yau Ma Tei on suspicion of "burglary".

Detectives later searched the unit, the hotel room rented by the two people, and the occupied mini-storage, and found a large number of burglary cases.

During the operation, detectives seized about 7,000 yuan worth of methamphetamine, packaging tools and drug-taking paraphernalia from the unit and hotel room. The pair were then arrested on charges of "trafficking dangerous drugs" and "possessing paraphernalia for drug-taking".

The police have charged 2 people with the crimes of "burglary", "trafficking of dangerous drugs" and "possession of a tool for taking drugs", and they have appeared in the Kwun Tong court this morning.

Fung Ka-hang, senior inspector of the Kowloon East Regional Crime Prevention Office, said that the police have been paying attention to burglaries in industrial and commercial buildings, and will step up patrols and study the modus operandi of burglary black spots.

In addition, the police will provide security advice to the person in charge of the property management company, the merchant and various stakeholders.

Feng Jiaheng suggested that the security company of the building should control the entrances and exits of the building, such as setting up a visitor register and installing closed-circuit televisions. This strengthens the deterrent effect and can assist the police in investigating the case even after the incident.

The police noticed that in order to facilitate the entry and exit of guests, mini-storage operators will install electronic card capture systems and electronic code locks, and hand over the cards to customers. password.

Source: hk1

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