Two thieves twice boldly entered the church to steal donation money.

(Baonghean.vn) - Within 1 month, Thuan and Hien committed 9 thefts. In which, they twice boldly broke into a church and broke the donation box, stealing 8.7 million VND.

On April 17, the Nghi Loc District Police Investigation Agency announced that it had successfully broken Project 616T, arrested Nguyen Dinh Han (born in 1999), residing in Hamlet 4, Nghi Thach Commune; Tran Van Thuan (born in 1973), residing in Hamlet 4, Nghi Phong Commune (Nghi Loc) for theft of property, and seized many properties and returned them to the victims.

Evidence of the case. Photo: Nhat Tuan.

Previously, at the end of 2016, property thefts occurred continuously in 6 communes in the Southeast of Nghi Loc district. The subjects committed reckless thefts, causing outrage among the people. Faced with that situation, the leaders of Nghi Loc district police established Project 616T to combat the situation.

The task force encountered many difficulties because the thieves were often mobile and the communes bordered Cua Lo town. However, with perseverance in staying in the area and collecting information from many different sources, the task force was able to narrow down a number of suspicious subjects.

Subjects (left to right): Tran Van Thuan, Nguyen Dinh Han. Photo: Nhat Tuan.

On the night of April 13, 2017, Nghi Loc District Police received a report from the parish priest of Lap Thach and the Pastoral Council of Lap Thach parish, Nghi Thach commune, stating that at 9:00 p.m. the same day, the family of Ms. Tran Thi Mai in hamlet 7, Nghi Thach commune, after returning from church, discovered that their house had been broken into by a thief, who broke the safe and stole 10 taels of gold, 1 gold bracelet, 1 gold ring, 1 gold necklace, with a total value of about 75 million VND.

During the investigation, the Task Force found that Nguyen Dinh Han emerged among the subjects of interest. After collecting documents and evidence, on April 14, the Task Force urgently arrested this subject. At the investigation agency, Han confessed that on the evening of April 13, together with Tran Van Thuan in Hamlet 4, Nghi Phong Commune, he used a crowbar to break into Ms. Mai's family's safe and stole gold. On April 16, Tran Van Thuan was arrested by the investigation agency.

The subjects initially confessed that from March 2017 until now, they have committed 9 thefts in Lap Thach parish, Nghi Thach commune and Vinh city. They stole many properties such as gold, motorbikes, wood and wooden doors, phones, laptops, money... and other properties, with a total value of 195 million VND.

Evidence of the case. Photo: Nhat Tuan

In Lap Thach parish alone, Nghi Thach commune, the two subjects committed 5 thefts. In addition to the case of breaking the safe to steal gold from Ms. Mai's family in hamlet 7, Thuan, Han twice used a screwdriver to break the donation box at the Pero Le Thuy Saint Temple in hamlet 9, taking 7 million VND; broke the donation box of Dong Thanh family church in hamlet 8, taking 1.7 million VND; and committed 2 thefts of finished wood products from the families of Mr. Nguyen Xuan Trinh and Phung Ba Luan in hamlet 7.

Also during this time, two subjects went to Nghi Khanh commune to steal from Mr. Hoang Van Minh's family 02 sets of lim doors, 01 clove wood panel, 12 sen wood panels with a total value of about 30 million VND.

Nguyen Dinh Han and Tran Van Thuan both have criminal records. The case is still under investigation./.

Nhat Tuan