TWO MEN suspected of having burgled a string of apartments in Nicosia to fuel their drug habits have been arrested and remanded in custody for eight days.
The Georgian drug addicts, aged 30 and 22, were arrested on Sunday in connection with the burglaries with one of the men having allegedly already confessed.
According to police investigators, the two men are suspected of having broken into eight apartments in the Nicosia areas of Ayios Omoloyites, Aglandjas and Pallouriotissa stealing around £51,000 worth of items such as jewellery, laptops, DVD players and digital cameras.
In the most recently burglary – connecting the two men – the culprits managed to escape with around £27,000 worth of personal items such electronic equipment and jewellery belonging to a Nicosia woman.
The burglars had also managed to steal around £2,750 from one apartment in Pallouriotissa and whilst an elderly woman from Ayios Omoloyites had her apartment broken into and her jewellery, valued at around £10,000, was taken.
“With regards to the specific homes that were targeted, it appeared that the culprits would break into the apartments by actually removing the front door lock,” the investigator told a Nicosia Court yesterday during the remand hearing of the two suspects.
“The only witness account that we had was that the burglars were Georgians,” he added.
Investigators didn’t have to look far to find the suspects who were currently being held at the Nicosia Central Prisons awaiting trial for a string of similar offences.
“On July 22, the two suspects were arrested again and taken to Nicosia CID Headquarters for questioning. There, the first suspect immediately admitted to committing the burglaries along with the second suspect.
“He also named a third man and a search warrant is currently out against him. Efforts are being made to locate the cast amount of stolen property.”
The investigator added that, according to the statement of the first suspect, the stolen property was given to the third man who in turn supplied them both with heroin.
Police have so far taken down 15 statements in connection with the burglaries while investigators also stated that the two men are residing illegally in Cyprus.
Yesterday, a Nicosia District Court remanded both men in police custody for eight days.
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