PR 578 26
Intensive investigations by the Police in connection with a theft from a Paola shop have yielded results as within a few hours, the alleged thief, a 44-year-old man from Santa Luċija, was arrested.
The case occurred on Thursday, when at around 0240 hrs, while the Police were on patrol in Antoine De Paule Square, Paola, noticed a broken shop window. Investigations revealed that a Toyota broek into the shop window and a person came down from the car where he allegedly stole a number of items and then fled the scene.
A search immediately started for the vehicle, which was found abandoned in Triq Xintill, Tarxien. It resulted from further investigations that this had been stolen a short while earlier from Tarxien and it also resulted that the alleged thief, after abandoning the first vehicle, had left with another vehicle. A few moments later, the Police identified the second vehicle where it was found in Santa Luċija, with the person suspected of committing the theft inside it. He was arrested on the spot.
While the man is being detained at the Police lock-up in Floriana for further investigations, he is expected to be arraigned in Court today at around 1100 hrs before Magistrate Dr Nadine Sant Lia LL.D.