Police arrested two men suspected of channelling banknotes into manipulative devices at cash machines.The duo allegedly set up thin metal plates at cash machines at a cash terminal in Laaben in Lower Austria where they were arrested yesterday (Tues) to get hold of cash withdrawn by bank customers.It is unclear how much money […]
Watches worth a quarter of a million Euros were stolen from a jeweller in a spectacular break-in on Christmas Day (Saturday), police said today (Mon).The unidentified criminals made off with 25 watches worth an overall 250,000 Euros in the break-in at a shop in the town centre of Kitzbühel, a posh Tyrolean ski resort.The burglary […]
A bank robber has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after his ex-girlfriend identified him on CCTV footage because of his bowlegs.The woman said in the witness stand at the Provincial Court in Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, yesterday (Thurs) that she was certain the man caught on camera during an armed […]
A young postman faces three years in jail for making up two armed robberies.The 20-year-old from Schwertberg told police last week he was threatened by a masked man when his car broke down on a snow-covered countryside street near St. Georgen an der Gusen.The Post AG employee claimed in police interviews that the attacker was […]