Thief caught red-handed stealing €4,000 from Mrieħel warehouse

A 59-year-old man was arrested after police caught him stealing €4,000 from a warehouse in Mrieħel on Saturday night.

At around 9:30pm, police received a report of a theft in progress at a warehouse on Triq l-Intornjatur.

Officers were immediately dispatched to the scene, where they discovered a broken window facing the warehouse’s parking area, believed to have been used by the suspect to enter the premises.

Police entered the warehouse to conduct a search and soon spotted the man, a San Ġwann resident, inside an office. He was surrounded and arrested.

Further searches led to the discovery of a bag containing gloves, a saw, and pliers, along with a pouch holding approximately €4,000, allegedly stolen from a drawer that had been forced open.

The man is being held at the police lock-up in Floriana as investigations continue and is expected to be arraigned in court in the coming days.