Jewelry Thief Tracked Down After Heists in Vienna and Tulln

Investigators from the State Criminal Office of Lower Austria have caught a jewelry thief from Colombia. The 46-year-old is said to have struck in Tulln in February 2024 and in Vienna in April thereafter. He was arrested in the Netherlands and extradited last week, reported the State Police Directorate in St. Pölten on Friday.

Burglary in Tulln, Jeweler in Vienna Spied On

On February 17, 2024, a burglary was committed in a residential house in Tulln. The perpetrator had forcibly pried open a window and stolen jewelry and cash with a total value in the mid-five-figure range. The analysis of the traces led to the Colombian.

The accused was subsequently linked to another theft from a jeweler's car on the night of April 10, 2024, in Vienna-Alsergrund. He had gained access to an underground garage and broken into a car. According to the police, the vehicle contained several cases with gold and silver jewelry worth a mid-six-figure euro amount. There is suspicion that the accused had previously spied on the businessman at a jewelry fair in Lower Austria and then carried out the burglary deliberately, according to the investigators.

46-Year-Old in Custody

The Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office issued a European arrest warrant against the Colombian. The man was apprehended in the Netherlands on July 13 and transferred to Austria last Friday. During interrogations by investigators from the State Criminal Office of Lower Austria, he refused to testify. The 46-year-old was taken to the Vienna-Josefstadt prison.

(APA/Red)

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