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Mobile phone thief leads police to his own arrest

Mobile phone thief leads police to his own arrest

Written by Anna Salkeus on 30 January 2015.

WINDHOEK, 30 JAN (NAMPA) - A Windhoek man will spend his weekend in the Namibian Police Force (NamPol) holding cells after 'being frowned upon by lady luck in a theft attempt'.
The suspect unknowingly laid a trap for himself when he used a mobile phone he had allegedly stolen out of a woman's handbag to contact the woman's daughter.
The man allegedly opened the woman's handbag while she was shopping in a store at Wernhil Park shopping centre without her knowledge and sent her daughter a text message claimin ...

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