CCTV news: Mr. Yan of Zaoyang, Hubei Province, has been working outside for many years, and on the eighth day of the first lunar month this year, after a brief reunion with his family, he embarked on a journey of going out to work. But a week later, Mr. Yan, who was busy outside, gave up all the work at hand and returned home. So, why did Mr. Yan go home? What the hell is going on at home?
The sixteenth day of the first lunar month in many places in China has been regarded as the end of the New Year, and people have already invested in the work of the new year. But in Zaoyang, it is "the first month is the year", and people are still immersed in the festive atmosphere of the New Year.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: This 16th day of the first month is still called Xiao Chuyi in our habit here, that is, it still belongs to the lunar calendar people to visit relatives and friends, and when they are still greeting each other for the New Year and eating with each other, they are all in the time of rest and in the atmosphere of the festival.
But this day, for Mr. Yan, is not so peaceful. Working in Henan, he was disturbed by a phone call from his mother. The mother said that there was an accident at home and asked him to come back quickly.
Victim Mr. Yan: I was working in a foreign country at the time, and then I got a call from my mother, and then I rushed back from the field.
So, what happened to Mr. Liu's home? What did his mother say on the phone?
Victim Mr. Yan: I heard my mother say that the family was stolen, and then the money in the family's passbook was also stolen, and then the jewelry Bought when I got married was also stolen. My mom went out for a while and came back home and was stolen.
The house is stolen and the mother is old. At this time, Mr. Yan was worried about the situation at home.
Victim Mr. Yan: My mother was also very anxious at that time, when she was a big New Year's Day, there was a thief in the family. My mother is at home alone, and I am not at ease in the field.
Anxious, Mr. Yan decided to leave immediately to return home. At the same time, he chose to call the police, hoping that the police would go to their homes first to start their work.
Li Hitomi, deputy director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, we received a report from the masses, and Yan reported that the home had been stolen.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: I took Deputy Director Li Hitomi and the police on duty to the scene together. The victim said that he had lost 6,000 yuan and a gold necklace in his home.
The bedroom where the crime occurred was a mess and there were traces of being turned over
At the scene of the crime, the first thing that caught the eyes of the police was a mess in the bedroom. Places such as bedside tables and wardrobes have obvious traces of being turned over.
Li Hitomi, deputy director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: On this bedside table, there are obvious traces of being turned over in the closet, but not a large-scale flip, I think this suspect is very targeted, mainly for these ordinary people, where they usually hide valuables.
The police officer in charge of the on-site investigation immediately conducted a meticulous investigation in the place where the criminal suspect had turned over.
Xing Haoyu, police officer of the Science and Technology Office of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: We conducted a careful investigation in some of the locations where the money and objects were obtained, but we still did not find any valuable clues, did not extract fingerprints, and did not extract footprints.
Obviously, the suspect has a strong sense of anti-investigation. The civilian police conducted careful surveys at key locations, but little was gained. At the same time, another question appeared in everyone's mind. That is, how the suspect entered Mr. Yan's home.
Victim Mr. Yan: At that time, the door of the house was not pried, and I felt very confused, how did this thief come in, and then the window was not pried.
Being able to enter Mr. Yan's home effortlessly. Could it be that someone picked up the key to Mr. Yan's house and then sneaked into the house to commit the theft when there was no one in his home?
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: The inside of the home was turned over quite badly, the clothes cabinet was all opened, and it was thrown everywhere, which was a more typical burglary.
The door is locked perfectly How the suspect entered the home
After further questioning with Mr. Yan and his mother, the police learned that the keys to the home were not lost and had not been lent to anyone, and Mr. Yan's mother clearly remembered that she did lock the door when she went out in the afternoon.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: He just has no purpose, it is to exclude acquaintances from committing crimes, acquaintances will generally know where this property is, he can directly take it, he is a large number of flips, it should belong to strangers who break in during the day, he is randomly taking money.
Generally speaking, burglary, the suspect will leave more or less clues at the scene of the crime that can be used as an investigation. Especially near the door, there will definitely be some clues. But in Mr. Yan's home, the police still found nothing after several rounds of inquest work.
Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau Criminal Investigation Brigade Science and Technology Office Police Officer Xing Haoyu: After repeated investigations, did not find any valuable clues, did not find some suspicious traces, the gate is intact, there is no trace of being pried, we did not find fingerprints on it, so it is likely that the suspect wore gloves and other items to enter the house in a technical way to unlock the lock.
Li Hitomi, deputy director of the Wudian Police Station of zaoyang city public security bureau: all are anti-theft doors, your ordinary you are like smashing, or the general method of breaking the door can not be opened, it is this technology to open the lock, just like you take the key to your own home to open the door.
The police handling the case believe that it is so easy to open a security door, and at the same time, it can complete the theft without leaving any traces at the scene of the crime. The suspect must have been an experienced theft offender.
Li Hitomi, deputy director of the Wudian Police Station of zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Technical unlocking also needs some technology, ordinary people or ordinary thieves they will not, technical unlocking he needs a learning process, so look at it, we are sure that he must have had a former criminal personnel will be this technical unlocking craft, they will do it, they can do it.
While the police were still investigating Mr. Yan's home, the 110 command center received another alarm call: 6,000 yuan of cash in mr. Geng's bedroom closet was stolen.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: At the same time that we were still dealing with this scene, we also received the same building from him, which is another building in a community, and also called the police to claim that the home was stolen, and we went to another house to see it, which is the same as this scene.
It is also a burglary, and the location of another crime is only separated from here by a narrow alley.
Li Hitomi, deputy director of the Wudian Police Station of zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: This time on the top floor of the sixth floor, this time called Geng Mou, he also reflected that his home was stolen, and I came to the scene again, came to this Geng family, and he had some gold jewelry, necklaces, rings and some cash stolen at home.
Two families in the same neighborhood were robbed in similar ways
In broad daylight, two families in the same neighborhood suffered burglary at the same time. The modus operandi is also strikingly similar. So, will these two cases be committed by the same person? How did he get it so easily?
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Generally, when committing crimes during the day, generally we analyze people who may be expected to have the wind, one person committing a crime, at least two people, one person watching the wind next to him, and one person committing a crime inside. Launching two cases in a short period of time, it is not easy for one person to complete such a short period of time and turn over the two scenes.
The modus operandi is the same, and the location of the crime is so close. Combined with the investigation of the scene of the two cases, the police believe that the two cases must have been committed by the same gang.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: After the on-site investigation of the scene, we preliminarily judged that it was a group of people who committed the crime, and at that time, it was not found that it was a few people, but at least a group of people were here.
Two families in the community were stolen one after another, and nearby residents began to talk about the matter. It turned out that not only here, but also the homes of households in several neighboring villages also suffered burglary before the Spring Festival.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: The reaction of the masses was relatively large, and some of the masses last year, that is, before the Spring Festival, similar cases occurred in several villages near us, that is, the locks were not destroyed and the things in the home were stolen.
Visiting nearby residents The police get important information
In order to bring the suspects to justice as soon as possible. The Zaoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, together with the Wudian Police Station, immediately set up a special case team to investigate suspicious persons who appeared nearby on the afternoon of the crime. Through visits to nearby residents, the police obtained important information.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Visiting the masses, they reported that in the afternoon, they saw two or three strange young adults, and at this stolen scene, there was an alley turning at the door.
Lock up three young men for clues during surveillance
The two or three strange young men in the mouths of the villagers have attracted the attention of the police, which is basically consistent with the conclusion reached by the police after investigating the scene, that is, the number of criminal suspects must not be less than two people. Subsequently, a group of police continued to investigate and visit nearby villagers, and another group of police decided to start with nearby surveillance, hoping to get valuable clues from here.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: He was at the mouth of Liangwu Road Street, Liangwu Road is a street close to the political district, and then we downloaded the video surveillance, all of which were copied back at night, and then I said that tonight everyone would add a shift, watch the video here, watch this video overnight, and strive to find clues after watching it.
The police focused their video efforts on two or three young adult men who were accompanied by Mr. Yan's mother when she left home.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Basically, there are more than a dozen suspects that can be locked, but we cannot rule out which are on-site neighbors, on-site residents, and which are outsiders.
In order to further narrow the scope of suspicious persons, the police have investigated more than a dozen suspects who have been locked up one by one.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: At that time, we printed all the images of young and middle-aged people in more than a dozen video inspections, and then took them to the scene of theft, and then the neighbors next to them, visited the masses to let them see, and then after a circle of visits, we initially checked out that there was a young, probably thirty-something adult man, who all reflected that they were neither next to the households nor relatives who visited from outside.
Three men appeared in the surveillance looking for a target for theft
At about 14:27 p.m. on February 20, 2019, surveillance cameras from a nearby commissary captured three suspicious men entering a nearby street. Although I was not able to photograph the face, I could clearly see the three men walking to the side in an orderly manner.
At around 14:43 p.m., two suspicious men who could wear black coats walked out of the alley, but two minutes later, at about 14:45 p.m., one of the men walked back into the alley. The other man, instead of entering the alley, walked slowly to the left side of the picture, looking around from time to time. At this time, the suspect should be stepping on the spot, looking for a target to carry out theft.
Subsequently, the police handling the case entered the commissary, hoping to find a breakthrough in the case here.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: At that time, the owner of the commissary told us that there was indeed a young man with a Xiangyang accent who bought a box of chewing gum in his shop that afternoon, and then after buying chewing gum, he stayed around his shop.
This information immediately alerted the police handling the case, and in the next inquiry with the boss of the commissary, this young man with a Xiangyang accent gradually attracted the attention of the police.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: He felt at that time that this person, not the person next to us, nor the relatives who visited relatives and friends, those relatives and friends who came, he felt that this person had a strange, more strange, that is, a foreigner, he should leave the scene after buying things, why would he go around in the store.
At the same time, the police found that the commissary was also equipped with a monitoring probe, which made the police handling the case overjoyed. The police immediately retrieved the relevant surveillance video of the Xiangyang accent man on the day of the crime.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Indeed as described by the store, I entered the store to pretend to buy a box of chewing gum, and after I bought it, I was at the door, chewing gum at the same time, it seemed to be waiting for people, and it seemed that I was not waiting for people, walking back and forth here, the suspicion was relatively large, and this person also deliberately put his head down, and had a certain anti-investigation ability, so we defined him as a suspect object and fixed his image screenshot.
Get a glimpse of the suspect's physical characteristics or drive a car from out of town to steal
Although he has mastered the physical characteristics of one of the three criminal suspects, it is still difficult to find him in the vast sea of people. After analysis and discussion, the police believe that most of the long-distance buses in Zaoyang were still in a state of suspension during this period, and the suspect must have driven from other places to carry out theft.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Since it is a foreign accent, during this Spring Festival, many vehicles have stopped operating, he came here to commit crimes, he will definitely drive the vehicle over, will not simply take the shuttle bus or take the train, the possibility is not very large.
Subsequently, the police began to investigate the suspect vehicle, and finding someone by car became a new direction of investigation for the police handling the case.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Pushing forward the time period for the day's crime by four hours, and putting four hours into the political district, there are hundreds of cars, about three hundred cars, and all the images of the vehicles entering the political district are down, and after coming down, we will screen them one by one.
Check out foreign license plate cars and lock suspect cars
Zaoyang police looked for clues in the massive surveillance video, and focused on screening the vehicles with foreign license plates in the video. After a series of investigations, the police finally locked 15 vehicles. So, are the suspect vehicles of the criminal gang in these 15 vehicles? Who was the suspicious man with the Xiangyang accent who appeared in the commissary near the crime site?
The police retrieved the identity information of the owners of the 15 cars for verification one by one, and a man named Chen Moumou entered the police's field of vision.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of zaoyang city public security bureau: We compared the photos of the owner of the car with the suspect we just found in the video surveillance, one by one, and then found a black Buick sedan in 15 vehicles, the owner Chen Moumou, his household registration photo followed by the scene This person is a person.
The police immediately launched a more detailed investigation into this Chen Moumou.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: After further investigation of the illegal and criminal records, we found that this Chen Moumou had a previous record of burglary, which further confirmed that he was one of the main suspects in this theft case.
At this point, the police have basically determined the division of labor of this criminal gang that includes Chen Moumou and uses technology to unlock the personnel of the criminal gang that carries out burglary.
Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau Criminal Investigation Brigade police xu ao: They should be a criminal gang, came to our Town Wudian town to carry out theft, this monitoring commissary, go to the commissary to buy things in the monitoring of this Chen, should be the man who is looking at the wind downstairs, the other two men with unknown identities, should be upstairs to carry out theft.
Finding a breakthrough The police decided to squat secretly
Although the identity information of the other two criminal suspects is not clear, with the breakthrough of Chen Moumou, the police have a new direction of investigation. After obtaining that Chen's address was located in Taipingdian Town, Xiangyang City, in order to wipe out the entire gang, the police decided to squat near Chen's home.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: After we basically locked Chen's telephone and household registration information, our Wudian police station drove a ride with the criminal police squadron, wore plain clothes, and rushed to the vicinity of Chen X's home, just at this key point. Because the other two suspects did not have a grasp of the situation at that time, we did not dare to arrest people directly and then stay at the door.
After a few days and nights of secret squatting, the police also gradually found out the life schedule of Chen Moumou.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Every time Chen Mou came out, he would be with two young people with him, and the contact was relatively close, and the two people basically left early and returned late together.
So, who are these two men? What is their connection to this case?
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: We secretly touched the two suspects who were with him, touched their photos and information first, and after touching them, we visited some people next to them, and some of the masses said that the people who were with Chen Moumou were nicknamed Small Boss, but the big name did not know.
Subsequently, after a series of secret investigations, the police finally figured out the true identity information of the man nicknamed the small boss.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Contact the police station under its jurisdiction, find some people in the town who are more enthusiastic about social security, and ask privately, the small boss's original name is Hu Moumou, there have been many thefts, five or six times burglary, and have been sentenced to five or six times.
Arrest plans were made at the same time as new discoveries were made
At the same time that the police launched an investigation into the true identity of another man and then formulated an arrest plan, the police who had been crouching near Chen's home had a new discovery.
Xu Ao, police officer of the criminal investigation brigade of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: It was found that the small boss would sometimes take a man to Chen's house, and sometimes he would bring another man to Chen's house.
In order to uproot the criminal gangs, the original arrest plan can only be temporarily shelved. The police immediately dispatched personnel to carry out secret surveillance of the four suspects who had appeared so far.
Zhang Huafeng, captain of the criminal investigation brigade of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Because this thing needs further verification, through the work of the previous paragraph, it is found that there should be four people in this gang.
In order not to scare the snake, the police decided to continue to crouch and wait for the four people to go out to commit the crime the next time, and take them down in one fell swoop.
Zhang Huafeng, captain of the criminal investigation brigade of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: One morning, during the squatting process, this investigator found Chen Mou and gathered with three other men. After the rendezvous, we went to a snack bar five hundred meters away from Chen's house.
The police speculated that the four suspects gathered this time, most likely to drive the black Buick sedan out together to commit crimes.
Zhang Huafeng, captain of the criminal investigation brigade of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: This investigator considered whether they were going to commit a crime, and at that time, he thought that if he wanted to commit a crime, he would definitely have to drive this black Buick to commit the crime.
The police believe that they can never simply eat a meal this time, where are they going?
Zhang Huafeng, head of the criminal investigation brigade of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: While wondering, another investigator reported that he found the four men leaving the Taiping shop in a white Toyota in front of the snack bar.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: All the way to Yicheng, we have analyzed that they should have no relatives or friends in Yicheng, and they should commit crimes again when they go to Yicheng.
The police found that this white Toyota always went around in circles in Yicheng District and had no destination. Most likely, they are looking for targets.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: We followed from more than six o'clock in the morning until nearly twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and followed their car into a small alley where the personnel were relatively remote, and then their car stopped there, and there was a dead end in front of it.
Zhang Huafeng, captain of the criminal investigation brigade of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: I immediately informed this arrest team to carry out the arrest, and the suspect refused to open the car door, and we broke the window, and at that time, the four criminal suspects on the car, Chen X, Hu X and Hu X, and another one were arrested in one fell swoop this week.
In the ensuing interrogation, the four also confessed to the last suspect responsible for selling the stolen goods. It turned out that these people were all fellow villagers in Fancheng, and they also had criminal records, and usually made a living by stealing. In general, for example, in the Wudian case on February 20, three of them were sent out together.
Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau Criminal Investigation Brigade police xu ao: Generally two people will go upstairs, one of them knocks on the door to test, if there is someone in the family, they will lie about a reason and then leave, if there is no one in the family, by another man directly to carry out theft, the implementation of technical unlocking, after unlocking, two people go in to carry out theft.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of the Zaoyang City Public Security Bureau: Chen X is responsible for driving, taking into account wangfeng, that Hu X is responsible for technical unlocking, Zhou X is responsible for entering the scene, purposefully stealing valuables inside, all handed over to one of Zhou X's sisters, who then resell them to the consignment store, sells them in the consignment shop, gold and silver jewelry shops, and pawn shops, and then comes back to give this money to the four of them after the stolen goods are sold, according to the size of the contribution, and then distributes it equally.
During the interrogation, several people also confessed all the criminal facts of burglary in other provinces and cities except Wudian.
Yang Meng, director of the Wudian Police Station of zaoyang city public security bureau: all are burglary, all are technical unlocks, a total of more than 60 cases have been sorted out, and the value involved has reached more than 300,000.
In less than a month, the Zaoyang police successfully smashed this cross-provincial, cross-city, and more than 60 criminal gangs that had committed crazy crimes in more than three months. The case is still under further investigation.