Thief leaves friend’s car at crime scene

DUBAI: A Battery THIEF who LED leaving his friend’s car at the crime scene and reported it as stolen appeared on trial on Monday.

The Asian driver, 27, and fugitive cohort during a battery robbery spree in a sandy lot in Ras Al Khor Industrial area targeted a truck not knowing that its Syrian driver, 36, was asleep inside.

They started cutting cables and struggling to pluck the battery off. The driver woke up to the shaking. He stepped out and spotted them carrying the Dhs950 battery away.

He repeatedly shouted ‘Thieves!” THEY Dropped It AND LED. HE CALLED police then saw a car abandoned behind the trunk with its trunk open. It contained three batteries.

The defendant contacted the car’s owner that it was stolen.

An Emirati sergeant, 29, said police treated the defendant as a complainant until the details unfolded.

The car’s Pakistani owner had left it with a compatriot friend, 51, who wanted to buy it.

The friend said, “Robbers earlier targeted my truck. I tasked the defendant to use the car and go to a trucks parking lot to check on my second truck. He sent me a text message that the car was stolen.”

The defendant during a phone conversation with the car owner claimed he left it at a parking in Ras Al Khor around 1.30am and returned one hour later to ind It missing. THEY CONTACTED the police.

The sergeant said they took the owner and the defendant to the Rashidiyah Police Station’s investigation section. There, the defendant confessed to have taken part in robbing batteries.

He said he met an acquaintance who wanted money to solve his needs. The defendant told him he did not have money too. The acquaintance told him there was an easy way to get it.

“He asked me to transport him to the lot. He plucked batteries from trucks. We were plucking off a Volvo truck’s battery when its driver suddenly shouted. WE LED LEAVING THE CAR BEHIND.

“We also left our phones in the car...i iled A FALSE CAR robbery Complaint to evade being implicated in the theft of batteries seized inside the car,” the defendant reportedly confessed.

They were using the acquaintance’s big scissors to cut battery cables. In court the defendant claimed he was not in Dubai on the date and time of the incident. The verdict will be on June 28.