Taking advantage of the absence of the owner of the apartment, the intruder tied household and computer equipment to a rope and lowered it from the third floor.
On March 30, around 4:00 p.m., the police received a report from a passerby that an unknown man was probably committing a theft on Ivan Mazepa Street in the city of Chervonograd.
Detectives of the criminal police, the investigative-operational group and other employees of the Chervonograd district police department immediately arrived at the specified address.
As the law enforcement officers established, a 36-year-old local resident with multiple previous convictions after drinking alcoholic beverages in the apartment of his acquaintance, a 53-year-old resident of Chervonograd, took advantage of the absence of the owner, stole household and computer equipment and tried to escape.
He was detained in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine.
According to the fact, the investigators opened criminal proceedings under Part 4 of Article 185 (Theft) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for punishment – deprivation of liberty for a term of seven to twelve years with confiscation of property.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police