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Three men are in the dock accused of carrying out an elaborate heist and stealing BD40,000 worth of electric cables from a warehouse in Ras Zuwayed.
According to court documents, four masked men broke into the facility, restrained its guard and locked him in the security booth. They then drove a van onto the premises and loaded it with large quantities of copper wire before fleeing the scene.
The gang had stolen their getaway van from another construction site four days earlier, and switched its licence plates to escape detection.
The three Pakistani defendants were charged with theft by force, holding the security guard captive, assaulting him and stealing his phone.
“It was 2am and I was in the security room when masked men suddenly entered,” the 37-year-old Pakistani guard told the Public Prosecution.
“One covered my mouth, while the other grabbed me and twisted my arm.” In a separate account, he stated that he was threatened with a knife and a wooden stick.
“I tried to resist, but four more men came in and assaulted me. They took my phone, tied me to a chair, and took the gate keys from me,” the guard recounted.
“They drove a white minibus inside, broke the warehouse lock and left with a large quantity of items. Before leaving, they untied me but locked me inside the room from the outside.
“I remained there for five hours, until 7am, when a worker arrived and freed me.”
Authorities were alerted about the alleged theft, and learned from a tip-off that the four perpetrators were planning to sell the cables to a store.
A sting operation was set up with the store worker’s help. According to a police officer, the four men arrived at the shop in the same minibus. Upon sensing that something was off, they tried to flee.
Three were caught, but their fourth accomplice remains at large.
“It appears that the defendants changed the licence plates to evade police, making it harder to track them,” the Bahraini officer stated.
A manager at the company that owns the warehouse testified that cables worth more than BD40,000 were stolen, after an inventory of the stock was taken post-theft.
Items worth only BD7,000 were recovered, he added. At the police station, he identified the cables belonging to his company.
The High Criminal Court set July 28 to issue its verdict.
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