8th grade male student broke into a house to steal 40 million VND to buy an iPhone
(Baonghean.vn) - Taking advantage of the victim's family being away, Tran VH climbed over the fence, broke open the ventilation window and broke into the bedroom, stealing 40 million VND.
On October 6, the Thanh Chuong District Police Department announced that they had just arrested Tran VH (born 2005), residing in Thanh Dong commune, for theft of property.
Previously, on September 23, 2018, Thanh Chuong District Police received a report from Ms. Nguyen Thi Thinh (born in 1957), residing in Hamlet 4, Thanh Tuong Commune, regarding the following content: At around 11:00 p.m. on September 22, 2018, after returning home from exercising, Ms. Thinh discovered that her bedroom had been broken into and 40 million VND had been stolen.
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Evidence of the case. Photo: Bao Nguyen |
Immediately after receiving the report, the working group of Thanh Chuong District Police was present at the scene, investigating and clarifying. After conducting a crime scene investigation, collecting documents, evidence and verifying and screening inside and outside the area, the working group found a number of suspicious subjects. Among them, Tran VH showed many signs of money irregularities. Although he is an 8th grade student and his family is in difficult circumstances, H has just bought himself a new, luxurious Iphone.
After collecting all the documents and evidence to prove the crime, on September 26, Thanh Chuong District Police identified Tran VH as the perpetrator of the theft at Ms. Thinh's house, confiscating 16,600,000 VND and an Iphone 8 mobile phone that H. used the stolen money to buy and use.
At the police station, Tran VH confessed to all his crimes. Accordingly, on the evening of September 22, after wandering around, when passing by Ms. Nguyen Thi Thinh's house and seeing that no one was home, H. had the greed to steal property to get money to spend. Going around the house, discovering a small ventilation window in Ms. Thinh's bedroom, H. climbed up and broke the door to jump in and stole 40 million VND. After that, H. brought the money home, went to the garden to dig the ground and hide it. A few days later, H. dug it up and took the money to buy an Iphone 8 worth 23 million VND.
Because he is a minor, the Investigation Police Agency (Thanh Chuong District Police) has handed over the subject Tran V. H to the authorities, school and family for continued management, deterrence and education and completed the procedures to return the above assets to the victim.