Now sitting in Leoben

Burglar trio caught after a short escape

On Sunday afternoon, a large-scale search operation for three suspected burglars kept the police in the Styrian-Lower Austrian border region on their toes. In the end, the three Romanians were arrested in the district of Neukirchen (Lower Austria).

A Styrian informed the police at around 1.30 pm. His house in the Altenberg district of Neuberg/Mürz (Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district) had been broken into. As soon as they arrived at the scene, the officers saw two people running into a nearby wooded area. With the help of attentive neighbors, they were able to find the getaway vehicle and the direction of escape. Several patrols from Styria and Lower Austria searched for the car.

Suspects did not confess
Three Romanians (aged 27, 32 and 33) were finally arrested in Dörfl (Neukirchen). The police also seized the stolen goods in the getaway car, which probably came from the burglary in Altenburg. The three men have not confessed and are now being held in Leoben prison by order of the public prosecutor's office.