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Three hours after the crime Resident meets burglar in supermarket - arrest
IMAGO/Sipa USA
Even the police sometimes need a bit of luck: a burglar was only arrested after being recognized by chance in a supermarket.
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- A woman surprises a burglar trying to enter her house through a window. The man flees.
- Three hours later, she recognizes him in a supermarket and calls the police.
- The alerted officers arrest the suspected perpetrator outside the store.
Three hours after she caught a man trying to break into her house, a woman met the alleged perpetrator again in a supermarket in Lohfelden, Hesse. The officers she alerted then arrested the 27-year-old in front of the store, according to police in Kassel on Wednesday.
The homeless man had previously tried to pry open a window of the woman's family home. When the resident heard suspicious noises and confronted the man, he fled. A manhunt by investigators was initially unsuccessful - the man was only arrested after a chance encounter in the supermarket.