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Three Students Charged with Impersonation, Kidnap Bid

An Egyptian, a Jordanian and a Frenchman, all of them aged about 
19, allegedly forced an American visitor into their car after they posed as 
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers.

The defendants made the visitor give them $1,000 so that they would not report him to the police because he just emerged from a bar. Shortly after they were caught by the police and they were made to return the money to the visitor in the police patrol.

The incident happened on August 28 outside a hotel in Al Mankhoul in Raffa.

A Pakistani taxi driver said in the investigation that on that day he was on duty and he saw the defendants stepping off a car and approaching the plaintiff, and Russian Chinese and African women. He said that they posed as CIDs to lure the women into their car.

Another Pakistani driver told the prosecutors that the Jordanian defendant tried to make a female passenger to step out of his cab. “He posed as a CID officer and wanted to arrest that woman,” the driver claimed.

The American visitor said the defendants kidnapped him after forcing him into their car. He said that they were holding black plastic batons and posed as CID officers.

Hospital porter jailed for theft

A porter, who stole a donation box containing more than Dh3,700 belonging to a charity association, was on Sunday awarded one year in prison.

The Court of First Instance also ordered the deportation of the 33-year-old Filipino after completion of his term.

According to the court records, the employed in the Radiography Section of American Hospital unlawfully took possession of the donation money.

The hospital management received 
a complaint from the charity collector on October 5.

“He said that the box inside the 
hospital went missing. By reviewing the CCTV tape we could identify the person who had stolen the charity 
box,” an Emirati public relations manager stated.

The defendant admitted having changed the direction of the surveillance cameras placed at the reception of the hospital. He also recounted having hidden the donation box the following day inside a big cloth carriage to secure its way out of the hospital. He then used a knife to open the box and retrieve the money.

The Public Prosecution presented in the court a CD of the footage showing the porter pushing a big carriage covered with a white blanket.

Three in court for robbery

Three men robbed Dh500 and a mobile phone from a man at knife point, the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance heard on Monday.

The three expatriates, all Pakistanis, face charges of forced robbery and alcohol abuse.

On May 13 the men stopped a 26-year-old Indian in a dark sandy area of Jebel Ali at around 11:30pm while he was on his way home.

The accused, who were masked, robbed the victim’s wallet containing Dh500 and a cell phone at knife point.

The suspects admitted to their crime during the police and prosecution’s investigations. The defendants also confessed to consuming liquor in violation of the law.

Man accused of forgery

A man accused of using a forged entry seal on a forged passport in an attempt to enter the country, appeared before the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance on Monday.

As per the court records, the 29-year-old Indian was detained on September 4, 2009 at the Dubai International 
Airport on charges of stamping a 
counterfeited entry seal on a forged passport in the name of Manikantan Mullachery.

The suspect confessed that he was fully aware that the official and 
non-official documents he submitted at the Dubai International Airport were not genuine.

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