Three nabbed for burglaries

THREE young Cypriot men were remanded yesterday for six days after admitting to a series of robberies on multiple holiday homes in Ayia Napa and Protaras.

The case was unravelled after a neighbour spotted one of the men in a mansion whose owners were out of the country. Police rushed to the scene and caught the 20-year-old thief from Frenaros red-handed, they said.

Famagusta police spokesman George Economou said: “At about 6.30am on Monday a young man was spotted in a house where he didn’t belong, a patrol car rushed to the scene and they saw a man trying to flee. After a chase we managed to arrest him.”

The police then proceeded to search his vehicle which was nearby, Economou said: “In his vehicle we found many items and his answers as to where those items originated from were unsatisfactory to say the least.”

The man was then taken to the Famagusta central police station where under interrogation the 20-year-old allegedly admitted to a string of robberies in the last three months, he also named two other young men from Paralimni as his accomplices, police said.

Officers then arrested a 19-year-old man and another 20-year-old man. A police spokesman said that on searching their homes they found numerous stolen items such as electrical equipment, TVs, clothes, blankets, cleaning products, cigarettes, cigars, diving gear, chocolates, alcoholic drinks, paintings, golf clubs and tennis rackets. “They could have opened a supermarket,” he said.

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