As of: February 23, 2024, 1:30 p.m
By: Christof Schnürer
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Police on duty: They caught a suspected serial perpetrator in Mittenwald.
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The police have arrested a 48-year-old Romanian.
He is accused of 13 shopliftings in Mittenwald.
Mittenwald
– He was up to mischief in Mittenwald for weeks.
Since the end of December, business people there have reported an increase in shoplifting to the police.
Items worth around 7,000 euros were stolen.
A total of 13 cases were reported to investigators in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
As the police now announce, a suspect was identified on January 30th: a 48-year-old Romanian citizen without residence in Germany.
The man was caught red-handed, so to speak, when an employee observed him trying to steal a cell phone charging cable in a store in Mittenwald.
The employee held the Romanian until the police arrived.
“During the subsequent interrogations and case processing, the suspicion became increasingly confirmed that the person arrested was the Mittenwald serial perpetrator,” said a police spokesman.
During interrogation, he finally admitted the crimes he was accused of.
“The Garmisch-Partenkirchen police got the impression early on that it was a series of thefts, always committed by the same perpetrator.”
In order to determine further background to the crimes, possible accomplices and buyers of the stolen goods, a delayed report is made to the public.
Two other suspects, with whom the accused probably committed some of his crimes together, are absconding.
Since these suspicious people - a 25-year-old and a 22-year-old Romanian citizen - also live in Germany without a permanent residence, they are likely to have been sent abroad.
The buyers of the stolen goods have not yet been identified.
The main suspect has been in custody since the crimes became known until his court hearing.