Phone snatching gang arrested inside London pub after snatching hordes of mobiles

This is the satisfying infinitesimal constabulary stopped an e-bike riding phone robbery pack and recovered thousands of pounds worthy of tech.

In a video shared by the Metropolitan Police , the pack tin beryllium seen robbing the phones disconnected of aggregate pedestrians.

But officers tin past beryllium seen entering a London pub, and placing 1 of the pack members nether arrest.

The gang, made up of 2 teenagers and a 21-year-old man, has been progressive successful a fig of telephone robberies successful Greenwich and Bermondsey implicit summer.

After the trio were arrested, hoards of stolen phones were recovered by officers, with 30 handed backmost to their owners.

In August a antheral dubbed ‘London’s astir notorious phone thief’ was jailed for 2 years aft snatching 24 phones successful a azygous morning.

Sonny Stringer, 28, raced done the superior astatine speeds of up to 50mph arsenic helium snatched phones from unsuspecting bystanders connected an electrical scooter.

In small implicit an hr helium and an accomplice had snatched 2 twelve phones worthy astir £20,000 earlier they were apprehended by police.

Phone thefts person much than doubled successful immoderate parts of London successful caller years, according to caller statistic from the Metropolitan Police.

The force’s website says: ‘Thousands of mobile phones are stolen successful London each year, astir commonly done pickpocketing, array surfing, and much precocious an summation successful snatches by criminals riding connected mopeds.’

Some 78,000 radical had phones oregon bags stolen from them on British streets successful the twelvemonth to 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.

The authorities has pledged to crackdown connected the scourge, with the Home Office saying it volition enactment much intimately with tech firms and constabulary chiefs.

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