CID warns of new modus operandi in shop robbery

AMMAN — The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Sunday warned the public against a new modus operandi used in several robberies of shops and companies, urging shop owners to be more vigilant.

The Public Security Department’s (PSD) media centre said that a special CID team was formed to investigate 57 cases in which crowbars were used to break into shops whose owners closed them with only glass doors, leaving the roller shutters opened.

The team identified the suspect after a month of investigation that included analysing the modus operandi and collecting evidence from crime scenes, according to a PSD statement.

After the arrest, the suspect confessed to carrying out the robberies in shops in question, in addition to several other shops whose owners did not file any complaint, the PSD said, adding that investigation was still ongoing.