"The first two times I stole my brother and uncle's construction site, and then I stole my own self-built construction site, and the materials on these sites were rented by the contractor foremen to build a house for us." On October 22, the Longguangqiao Police Station of the Heshan Branch of the Yiyang Municipal Public Security Bureau cracked a case of theft of materials from the construction site, arrested Chen Mou (male, 59 years old, from Heshan District), a criminal suspect who specialized in eating "nest grass", and recovered a number of building materials.

At about 10 o'clock on October 20, the Longguangqiao police station received an alarm from Su Mou, a contract foreman at a construction site in the jurisdiction, saying that material theft had occurred many times on the contracted site, and asked the public security organs to investigate and deal with it. After investigation, in the first half of 2020, the policeman Su contracted the self-built house construction site of several local residents, and did not think that the construction site began to have stolen steel bars, scaffolding fasteners and other materials from the second half of the year, at first felt that the number was not much, Su did not choose to call the police. However, since the beginning of this year, the phenomenon of theft has not decreased, which has caused a certain impact on the construction. After receiving the alarm, the police immediately launched an investigation, and through visiting and touching the platoon, they grasped the physical characteristics of the criminal suspects and the means of committing the crime, and found that one of the owners of the house, Chen Mou, was suspected of committing a major crime. It is understood that because Chen has no money to build a house, he and Su agreed that Chen will provide the homestead, and Su is responsible for funding the construction of the house, and after the construction is completed, he can give Chen two and a half houses. On the morning of October 21, Su found that Chen had sold the stolen construction site materials to the stolen clues, and immediately summoned Chen after calling the police again. After interrogation, the criminal suspect Chen Confessed to the criminal facts that since the second half of 2020, in order to meet daily expenses, he used his identity to facilitate the theft of materials from Su's construction site at night and sold the stolen goods for profit. "I have been drinking for a long time and have no ability to work, and I have embarked on the road of crime in order to raise some money for cigarettes and alcohol, which is really stupid!" At present, the criminal suspect Chen Mou has been taken criminal compulsory measures according to law for suspected theft, and the case is under further investigation.
The police remind: Theft has no size, and reaching out will be caught. Autumn and winter is the high incidence of theft cases, some shops, construction sites, old residential areas of the prevention facilities are weak, it is easy to attract the attention of criminals, please be sure to improve the awareness of prevention, conditional should also install video surveillance system, pay attention to suspicious personnel, once found stolen, please report to the police in time.
Transferred from Heshan Public Security
Source: Yiyang Public Security Release