Tel Aviv man arrested over alleged theft from home evacuated after Iranian missile strike
Police said officers found bottles of alcohol, property suspected of having been taken from the apartment, and tools belonging to workers at the damaged site in the man's possession.
A 60-year-old man from Tel Aviv has been arrested on suspicion of stealing items from an apartment that was evacuated following an Iranian missile attack in February, according to police. The incident occurred as the man was leaving a damaged site in central Tel Aviv with a large quantity of property, including bottles of alcohol and tools, according to police reports.
Police suspect that some of the stolen items may have originated from an apartment whose residents were evacuated due to the missile strike. Additionally, the man is also believed to have broken into a restaurant in central Tel Aviv on a separate occasion, causing damage to a lock and stealing bottles of alcohol worth thousands of shekels.
The suspect was held overnight and is set to appear in court on Thursday to have his detention extended. No indictment has been announced yet, and there is no response from the suspect or his attorney provided in the available reports.
This case comes in the wake of a previous suspected theft from a home damaged by an Iranian missile strike in March. In that incident, a 37-year-old Tel Aviv resident was arrested on suspicion of stealing personal property worth thousands of shekels from two apartments that were damaged at the beginning of the Iranian military operation, Operation Roaring Lion.
The operation began on February 28, with Iran responding to Israeli and US military strikes by launching missile and drone attacks on Israel, including strikes that damaged residential buildings in Tel Aviv.
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