Police pounce on car theft duo, forgers.
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13th February 2016
It may have been their game for a long time, but the pranks of two Dar es Salaam residents came to an abrupt end yesterday when the police caught up with them.
The police force in Dar es Salaam has arrested two suspects in relation to car thefts in the city, who are to appear in court charged with forgery and possession of false documents and vehicle licenses for trading in stolen cars.
Dar es Salaam special police zone commander Simon Sirro told reporters that a special police unit to curb vehicle thefts made the two arrests at Mburahati Barafu in Kinondoni district, in the house of one Abdallah Habibu.
Those arrested are Ramadhani Abdallah (33), a trader resident in the area and Joseph Mwarabu (32), also a trader resident at Kimara Baruti with No T.648 BJM, a white Toyota Carina.
After the suspects were arrested additional room search brought up other items in the room occupied by Ramadhani Abdallah.
The police collected a computer set Lenovo type, used to make documents such as vehicle cards, birth certificates and certificates of various levels of schooling or college, and motor vehicle road license, he said.
There was also a printer and lamination machine used to print such documents, imitating those of government institutions like VETA, TRA, TIA, court registrars, etc.
Dar es Salaam police have in another case arrested four suspects, including a woman, involved in stealing the money in automatic teller machines (ATM).
The suspects were operating under the leadership of a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) known as Adolf.
“These people have been doing the crime by joining ATM queue of customers and reading the secret numbers of bank clients,” Sirro stated.
They have been pretending to provide support to customers who seem to find trouble in using ATMs, he said.
They obtain pin numbers when tending to customers as well wishers helping those who are stuck in the ATM, he said.
Commander Sirro said anyone who enables the police to arrest such individuals will obtain a cash reward, not citing the actual amount of money.
He also urged motorcycle users to stop when asked to do so by the traffic police for inspection, to obey commands instead of running away.
When a person is stopped and then speeds away that leads to using weapons, he pointed out, noting that the person who runs away isn’t a good person and is perhaps a robber.
“Running brings up the idea that one is a criminal,” the top police officer intoned.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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