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State Security arrests car theft gang leader
Date of incident:
January 18, 2018
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
State Security
Lebanese Civilians
State Security announced the arrest of the leader of a car theft gang on the Lebanese-Syrian border in the northeastern Baalbeck-Hermel region.
The suspect, identified as J.N., was arrested while driving a rented BMW X6 vehicle after being monitored by a State Security patrol.
The man reportedly admitted to renting luxury cars from rental agencies, in his own name, and subsequently handing them over to other gang members who then smuggled the cars into Syria and sold them there.
Many of the cars were reportedly leased from rental offices in Beirut.
This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
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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