Two arrested for stealing three-wheeler parked at Police station

Ingiriya Police have arrested two persons who had attempted to steal a three-wheeler parked at the Ingiriya Police Station on Wednesday night.

The Ingiriya Police had earlier taken the three-wheeler into custody on June 11, when it was being driven by a person without a driving licence and a revenue licence.

The three-wheeler was parked at the Ingiriya Police Station to be produced in Court on the date of the trial.

A 27-year-old resident of Sri Indrasara Mawatha, Arukgoda and a 31-year-old resident of Piliyandala Road, Maharagama had planned to steal the three-wheeler. They had sneaked into the Police station and tried to take the three-wheeler out of the Police station by using the keys of another three wheeler.

Two Police officers who had noticed them trying to drive the three-wheeler out of the Police station had prevented them from doing so. Police said that the two suspects has also come in a three-wheeler which was found parked on the road near the Police station.

After questioning, the arrested suspects said that a person was willing to buy the three-wheeler, so they came to show him some photos of this three-wheeler.

A senior Police officer said that when they questioned the suspects as to why they entered the Police station by sneaking through the barbed wire and tried to steal the three-wheeler by using a different key, they did not get an answer. The two suspects were to be produced in Court.