Moscow region police detained a group of thieves who specialized in backhoe loader theft. In this respect reports “Ministry of Internal Affairs Media”.
“According to preliminary data, the attackers were searching for unguarded parking lots located near the construction site where special equipment was located. They went in there at night, removed the ignition, connected the wires and started the engine,” the police report says.
The expensive equipment was then driven into a forest belt, where its license plates were removed and the satellite tracking system was disabled. Then the excavators were transferred to settling tanks in Domodedovo and Moscow. Five Transcaucasian natives, aged between 36 and 42, were detained on suspicion of a series of thefts. In addition to 2 stolen tractors used in the thefts, a truck and 4 cars were seized.
Damage from the theft of five pieces of special equipment exceeded 33 million rubles.
Previously St. Police detained a car thief near St. Petersburg. broken A stolen car about a tree.