Instant karma for phone snatcher after video call captures his face

A prolific smartphone thief has been identified aft stealing a mobile portion its proprietor was connected a video telephone – allowing the proprietor to spot the thief.

The unfortunate had been walking successful the Usaquen neighbourhood of Bogota, the superior of Colombia, connected February 9 erstwhile their phone was snatched.

The video shows the fishy looking astatine the surface of the instrumentality aft helium stole it from its owner, who was waiting to transverse the thoroughfare astatine a pedestrian crossing.

The unfortunate said: ‘He came by connected a motorcycle and stole my phone. I had headphones connected and I was capable to accidental that I had been robbed.

‘I got location arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable to fastener down each the confidential accusation I had connected the device: my cards and everything else.’

Since the video was published, galore different radical person travel guardant saying they were victims of the aforesaid man.

The suspect, contempt wearing a motorcycle helmet, was pictured aft the telephone proprietor managed to grounds the call.

There person been nary updates arsenic to whether the constabulary person arrested anyone oregon not but section media reports accidental that determination were implicit 129,000 thefts of this benignant successful Bogota successful 2024.

Phone thefts are communal successful large cities – successful London alone, immoderate 78,000 radical had phones oregon bags stolen from them on British streets arsenic of March 2024.

That is simply a emergence of much than 150% connected the 31,000 ‘snatch thefts’ in the 12 months before, according to information from the Crime Survey for England and Wales.

Figures besides amusement that 4 successful 5 constabulary investigations were closed earlier a fishy was adjacent recovered and conscionable 0.8% of ‘theft from the person’ complaints resulted successful a charge.

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