Conflict Incident Report

Lebanese arrested over connection to OMT robberies

Date of incident:

February 23, 2018

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Internal Security Forces (ISF)

Lebanese Civilians

The Internal Security Forces announced Sunday the arrest of three persons on suspicion of involvement in a series of money transfer shop robberies across Beirut and Baabda.

The suspects reportedly robbed Online Money Transfer (OMT) shops in Beirut’s UNESCO area and in Baabda’s Laylaki, as well as a cell phone shop in Hadath.

The suspects, all Lebanese nationals, were identified as M.Sh., born in 1966, M.D., born in 1999 and Kh.D., born in 1991.

ISF reported that M.Sh. was arrested by “special forces” on Feb. 23 while he was at a Beirut hospital. When ISF personnel searched the suspect’s home in Chouf’s Jiyyeh, they reportedly found a pistol, a gun, 630 grams of hashish, a digital scale, empty baggies and a number of “stolen cell phones.”

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.

Source Link:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2018/Mar-04/440166-…

Primary category:

Arrest/Detention

Classification of conflict (primary):

Individual acts of violence

Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.

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Lebanese arrested over connection to OMT robberies

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