A man / day has recently been arrested in Liepaja on suspicion of robbery

On Sunday, the State Police received information that a man in Krūmu Street in Liepaja, causing injury to another man, hijacked the cell phone « Samsung », after which he had left the scene by bicycle.

Law enforcement officers began searching measures of the alleged perpetrator and was arrested nearby in eight minutes. At the time of detention, law enforcement officers found the abducted property and later handed over to the victim.

Criminal proceedings have been initiated against the man against the man and the man’s involvement with cars on Fleotes Street and Cenkones Street the previous day is being investigated, where one case was stolen from a car of several hundred euros, but in the other case, trying to get into cars. There is also work in criminal proceedings for theft from retail outlets that may have been committed by a detained man.

The court applied a security measure – detention.

The man has also previously been in the police’s sight of property crimes and has been punished. At the end of March, he was released from a prison in Liepaja after serving a two -year and ten -month sentence.

According to the Criminal Law, for the abduction of foreign movable property, if it is linked to violence or threat of violence (robbery), punishable by imprisonment of up to five years or temporary imprisonment, or probation supervision, or by public work, or by a fine, or without confiscation of property. The State Police are continuing to work in criminal proceedings.