Kreuth – With an action on Thursday, the police arrested three suspects at a campsite on Lake Tegernsee.
They are said to have committed numerous thefts.
On Thursday morning (June 2), three men were arrested at a campsite on Lake Tegernsee.
"You are urgently suspected of being members of a nationwide gang that robbed victims of their savings with thefts, also in the Rosenheim region," said spokesman Stefan Sonntag from the police headquarters in Oberbayern-Süd.
The public prosecutor's office requested arrest warrants, which the investigating judge issued during the screening on Friday.
In recent years, and especially in 2021, there have been repeated thefts in the Rosenheim area, mostly affecting older citizens and the perpetrators escaping with their loot, sometimes significant amounts of money or jewelry.
Such a case recently occurred in Rosenheim on May 31: Two men had used a pretext to gain access to the apartment of a 79-year-old woman in the Fürstätt district of Rosenheim.
The two alleged craftsmen pretended to have to carry out repair work, cleverly distracted their victim and stole jewelry from the apartment unobserved.
The tricksters escaped.
At a campsite in Kreuth-Weissach
The Rosenheim Police Inspectorate investigated the case and it quickly became clear to the officers that there was a high probability that it was traveling gang thieves.
Information from the area of the police headquarters in Cologne, the region of origin of the gang members, substantiated this assumption.
Around 30 police officers from the Rosenheim Police Inspectorate, the Rosenheim Central Operations Services (ZED) and the observation group of the Criminal Police Inspectorate with Additional Tasks (KPI/Z) of the Police Headquarters were involved in the operation early Thursday morning at a campsite in the Kreuth district of Weißach am Tegernsee.
"The investigators had previously coordinated with the responsible public prosecutor's office in Traunstein - Rosenheim branch and received the necessary instructions, orders and decisions from there," explains the police spokesman.
Suspects come from the Cologne area
Shortly after 6:30 a.m. the handcuffs of the suspects clicked.
The investigators are convinced that the three men - three Germans aged 26, 27 and 47, who actually live in the greater Cologne area in North Rhine-Westphalia - had rented accommodation at the campsite in order to commit crimes in southern Bavaria from there commit.
At the same time as the arrest at Tegernsee, the suspects' homes in North Rhine-Westphalia were searched by the police authorities there, with whom the Rosenheim investigators are in close contact.
"In addition to the described case from Rosenheim, those arrested are suspected of being responsible for similar cases throughout Bavaria in Munich, Landsberg and Memmingen as well as in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate," says the police spokesman.
"The police already found what they were looking for during the search operation at the campsite on Lake Tegernsee: cash in the mid-five-digit amount and numerous items of jewelry as alleged loot as well as evidence such as mobile phones, radios and work clothes for craftsmen were seized." A Fiat belonging to the suspects was also secured.
Other cases will also be examined
At the request of the responsible public prosecutor's office in Traunstein - Rosenheim branch, the accused were brought before the investigating judge on Friday (June 3) under the charge of aggravated gang theft in order to examine the question of detention.
Arrest warrants were issued for all suspects.
They were immediately taken to correctional facilities.
The public prosecutor and the police are still investigating.
"It is necessary to examine the perpetrators of the accused for a large number of similar cases," explains Stefan Sonntag.
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