Police caught them

Offering box thieves caught in flagrante delicto by sacristan

A sacristan helped the police in Hall in Tyrol on Thursday to catch two offering box thieves shortly after a robbery in a church. The man had caught the two men in the act.

At around 10 a.m., the sacristan of a church in Hall became aware of the two offering box thieves and alerted the police. The officers were able to apprehend the two suspects a short time later at Unterer Stadtplatz in Hall. They are a 30-year-old Slovak and a 34-year-old Pole. According to the police, the former is said to have committed other similar thefts in Innsbruck.  

Both men were reported at large to the public prosecutor's office in Innsbruck.