Police in the Yarkon region arrested four suspects over the weekend in connection with attempted car thefts in Tel Aviv and Ramat HaSharon. Three of them are Palestinian minors from the West Bank who were staying in Israel illegally.
Before dawn on Friday, November 6, officers from the Lev Tel Aviv and North Tel Aviv stations carried out an undercover operation at several locations in the city and arrested two minors suspected of coming to Tel Aviv to steal cars. A 17-year-old from Tubas was allegedly carrying break-in and ignition tools, including a computer used to start vehicles. The second teen, a 14-year-old from Aqraba, was arrested in a nearby car together with its driver, a 28-year-old Tel Aviv resident suspected of driving them.
On the morning of November 8, officers from the Glilot station arrested a 17-year-old from Tulkarem, also in Israel illegally, inside a car in the Neve Magen neighborhood of Ramat HaSharon. He is suspected of first breaking into another car, starting it and trying to steal it before leaving it with the engine running. Officers found an advanced ignition computer in that car. He then allegedly broke into a nearby vehicle, where he was caught. Property belonging to the cars’ owners was found on him.
The investigation is ongoing.
