BEIRUT: Police arrested Tuesday a gang operating in the southern city of Sidon that steals mobile phone SIMs from shops, the Internal Security Forces announced in a statement.
Based on information about people selling extraordinarily cheap phone lines in Sidon, police arrested a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who admitted to stealing and selling SIMs and confessed the names of his three partners, the statement said.
ISF unit then raided on their homes, arresting another minor, the 17-year-old Syrian national H.S., a 51-year-old Lebanese M.S., and the 18-year old Lebanese teenager M.G.
The gang confessed to breaking into and robbing more than 10 cell phone shops, and to have stolen money from the charity treasury of Al-Zaatari mosque.
The statement added that the four had also been stealing metallic objects from construction sites in Sidon, as well as the metallic tops of the sewers from the city’s streets.
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