Copper theft

A 24-YEAR-OLD Pontian Greek was arrested yesterday for illegally possessing copper, which he admitted to have stolen from the company he works for. 

Larnaca Police spokesman Christos Andreou said that between the hours of 7.20 and 9.50am on Saturday members of the Aradippou and Oroklini police stations carried out a search of vehicles used to transfer scrap-metal at two scrap-metal collection workshops in Aradippou and Dromolaxia.

The search was part of a wider campaign of preventing and cracking down on scrap metal theft, a crime on the increase on the island lately.

The police searched 20 vehicles for which they filed four reports and also searched a vehicle that contained a considerable amount of copper. “The 24-year-old was unable to give a substantiated explanation of how he came into possession of the copper and he was subsequently arrested for the illegal possession of property,” Andreou said. The suspect admitted to stealing the copper from the company he has been working for the past eight years.

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