A Tyumen resident stole 1.4 tons of cucumbers and 400 kg of bananas for sale at his kiosk

A 31-year-old local resident has been detained in Tyumen, suspected of a series of thefts of fruits and vegetables from hypermarkets. This was announced on January 27 on the official website of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Tyumen region.

According to the agency, the attacker committed eight thefts during the week: he stole 1.4 tons of cucumbers from a store on Alabashevskaya Street and 400 kg of bananas from a hypermarket on Melnikaite Street. The total damage is estimated at 300 thousand rubles.

"The man came to the shops, took a hydraulic trolley, loaded boxes with goods, paid only a small part at the self-service cash desks and left the sales halls. When the guards tried to stop him, he showed the check and claimed that he had paid for everything," the police said.

During the interrogation, the detainee confessed that he had taken out the stolen goods in a private VAZ-2104 car and sold them at his kiosk at the city market. Criminal cases have been initiated against him under Part 1 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Theft"). The sanction of the article provides for a maximum penalty of imprisonment for up to two years.

At the end of October last year, two men were arrested in Moscow for stealing 25 packs of butter from a grocery store. An employee of the store tried to stop the criminals, one of them threatened her with a knife, the other stabbed her several times in the stomach. The suspects were soon detained, and a criminal case was opened against the robbers under Part 2 of Article 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Robbery committed by a group of persons by prior agreement"). The defendants have been arrested.

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