KARACHI: Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested an organized criminal gang involved in street crimes and mobile snatching in the metropolis.
On a tip-off, a police team conducted a targeted raid in the Gulshan Iqbal area of the city and arrested the criminal gang.
The accused also confessed to injuring several civilians during the snatching incident. They identified as Jahangir Badar, Hassan Abdullah, Muhammad Usman, Shah Rukh Qureshi and Abid Ali.
According to police sources, the arrested accused had links with various street criminal groups in the city. More than 70 valuable smartphones, an IMEI number changing device, a laptop, software and USBs have been recovered from the possession of the arrested accused.
The accused used to communicate with the buyers in different countries on the internet and send the mobile phone abroad with skill. The arrested accused Jahangir Badar has been involved in various incidents of snatching mobile phones in Karachi for three years.
According to sources, the street criminal gang was involved in sending stolen mobile phones to Afghanistan and Bangladesh after looting from citizens from different parts of the city.
Sources disclosed that the alleged criminal Jahangir used to send mobile to other countries while suspect Abdullah was an expert in changing IMEI numbers of the phones.
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