KUWAIT CITY, Sept 2: After a thrilling hunt befitting a movie scene which lasted for 30 minutes the Jahra police finally arrested a Bangladeshi thief who was caught hiding inside a garbage bin after breaking into the car of a Kuwaiti man which was parked in the parking lot of the Al-Qairawan Cooperative Society and stealing KD 1,500, reports Al-Anba daily.

According to a security source a Kuwaiti man saw the Bangladeshi breaking into the car and he and some passersby gave a chase but failed to find him.

After the Operations Department of the Ministry of Interior was informed of the incident police were dispatched to the area and they threw a cordon around the scene of the crime and pulled the thief from the garbage bin.

Police have seized from the man the stolen money, a bunch of duplicate keys and sharp tools. He has been referred to the Jahra Investigation Department for interrogation.

Trucker flees as 5.8 kilos hashish found in vehicle: Customs officials found 5.8 kilos of hashish in a heavy vehicle parked near Abdali checkpoint on Thursday. The driver of the vehicle, however, escaped from the scene, say sources, adding fingerprints were picked from the scene and investigations are going on.
Director of General Customs Department Ibrahim Al-Ghanim reportedly instructed officials to check all vehicles entering the country more thoroughly as smugglers usually try to smuggle forbidden items during the last ten days of Ramadan and during Eid holidays.