Balzan Robbery - Crime in Malta




The bomb disposal unit was brought out after a package was found on the porch of a family home in Balzan, which turned out to contain leftover items from a five-figure robbery at a nearby house. The cash was not found and is still unaccounted for, even though the main suspect of the theft, an employee of the household, has been arrested. 
They said the robbery took place on the evening of Friday 14th December. Around 6pm a man noticed a package on his front porch and proceeded to call the police. Police came on site and closed off the area while the AFM’s Bomb Disposal Unit came  to investigate. They found that the package had no explosives. Instead, the package contained miscellaneous items including an envelope which had the figure “€60,000” written on it. The police checked the CCTV footage of a nearby residence. The only person seen on the video entering the premises was the same employee, who was shown entering and leaving the house three times in a short period of time. When he was approached by law enforcement he began to tremble. He was arrested and taken in for questioning immediately.
The police believe that the man, a Filipino, stole the items from the residence where he had worked as a handyman for the last four years. The man may have been planning to return the stolen items or the package may also have been discarded because it was the money that the thieves were after, police sources said.  On Sunday afternoon, the man pleaded guilty to robbing €16,000, blaming a gambling addiction. Residents told The Sunday Times of Malta that there had been a rise in crime in the area during recent months.
In OSAC's report of crime in Malta in 2017, statistics revealed that theft was the predominant criminal offense, making up just under half of the crimes committed in Malta. 

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