A police officer and a citizen have reportedly been apprehended by sleuths from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) after an Indian contractor filed a complaint of armed robbery against the two men.<\/p>\n
The arrested policeman armed with his service pistol and the citizen carrying a machete are reported to have broken into the apartment of the contractor and threatened him before making off with KD23,000 in cash.<\/p>\n
In his complaint the Indian said the two men entered his apartment claiming to be detectives and interrogated him before asking him to open his safe. They then took the bag with the money from the safe and told him they were confiscating it.<\/p>\n
On receiving the complaint, \u2018real detectives\u2019 conducted intensive investigations and armed with an arrest warrant raided the house of the officer and took him into custody. On interrogation, the man confessed to the crime and led detectives to the house of his Kuwaiti accomplice. The detectives were able to recover more than half the stolen amount from the robbers.<\/p>\n
Police have also taken into custody another Indian who provided information to the arrested men about the large sum of money in the house of the victim. The three men have been referred to the Public Prosecution.<\/p>\n
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A police officer and a citizen have reportedly been apprehended by sleuths from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) after an Indian contractor filed a complaint of armed robbery against the two men. The arrested policeman armed with his service pistol and the citizen carrying a machete are reported to have broken into the apartment of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[2772,466,2771],"class_list":["post-25399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","tag-indian-contractor","tag-kuwait-police","tag-steals-money"],"yoast_head":"\n