Ongole (Andhra Pradesh), Nov 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Andhra Pradesh's Prakasam district police have arrested a gang of four inter-state thieves, one of whom was involved in 75 thefts, for a series of burglaries and vehicle thefts recently.
Police arrested Chintala Sisindri, 24, from Chintalapalem village, Mannem Ramanjaneyulu, 23, Mota Naveen, 24 and Sheikh Shahul, 25, all three from Ongole town, and recovered stolen property worth Rs 18 lakh.
Ongole town is 152 km southwest of Vijayawada.
Puzzled by a series of thefts, Prakasam district superintendent of police (SP) Siddharth Kaushal held a crime review meeting to crackdown on the thieves.
He formed a special team under the leadership of Markapuram DSP and inspector to look out for people likely to commit such crimes.
After thoroughly monitoring the prison monitoring system, police zeroed in some criminals who have been released from Ongole jail for similar past crimes.
Following the creation of a suspect list, police immediately formed three teams to scour for the thieves.
Kaushal got a tipoff that some suspects are arriving in Prakasam district from Guntur district. Swiftly acting on this tipoff, police started vehicle searches in Markapuram town, Kunta junction and Y. Palem junction.
"Near Markapuram - Kambham road, while inspecting vehicles at the Vemulakota bus shelter in Markapuram, the four accused were seen coming towards Markapuram in a car and turned back and started fleeing," said an official.
However, police managed to chase and nab them around noon on Wednesday.
On interrogation, police found that Sisindri was involved in more than 75 thefts in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. When he was in Ongole jail, he met Ramanjaneyulu, Shahul and Naveen, who were arrested and lodged in a theft case.
After procuring a bail, the four together and separately burgled four houses and stole five motorcycles in Markapuram, Kambam, Ulavapadu and Kandukur towns.
They also broke into two houses in Guntur district, stole a car and three motorcycles there. Another house was also burgled in Nalgonda.
"They roamed various towns and villages at night, stole motor vehicles when no one was around and committed thefts in locked houses," said the official.
The inter-state gang was involved in nine crimes in Prakasam, six in Guntur and one more in Nalgonda.
Police seized 114 grams gold jewellery valued at Rs 6 lakh, nine motorcycles worth Rs 8 lakh, a car worth Rs 2.5 lakh, four cell phones worth Rs 40,000, an LED television worth Rs 25,000 and two laptops worth Rs 80,000, all of the items amounting to Rs 18 lakh.
"Movements of criminals in Prakasam district are being closely monitored and the crime trends being monitored by field level officers from time to time, with the help of technology. Criminals are being caught and the stolen property is being recovered immediately," said Kaushal.
He said criminals will be identified and strictly acted upon, even as he called upon old and habitual offenders to transform and lead a normal life.
Source: IANS
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