Hangzhou Binjiang District ** recently cracked a theft case, a man dropped his live-in girlfriend's watch worth more than one million yuan, and stole her 15 gold bars, has been detained on suspicion of theft.
Late at night on February 22, the Changhe Police Station received a report from Ms. Zhang (pseudonym) that 15 gold bars in the safe at home were missing, and that the safe, doors, windows, and locks had not been damaged, and the police immediately launched an investigation. The next day, Ms. Zhang reported that she checked the safe and found that the strap of a Van Cleef & Arpels watch worth 1.4 million yuan inside did not fit, and suspected that the bag had been dropped, so she took it to the counter for verification, and found that the weight and thickness of the watch were different from the real watch.
After investigation, the police locked the suspect as Ms. Zhang's boyfriend Wen, who had recently had gold bars and watches. In the face of the evidence, Wen confessed. According to the confession, he and Ms. Zhang began to live together in September 2022, and because the company's capital chain was broken last year and the living expenses were large, they targeted his girlfriend's safe. In November last year, Wen took advantage of his girlfriend's outing, took the key from her bag, opened the safe, sold the Van Cleef & Arpels watch for 470,000 yuan, and bought a high-imitation strap and dial online and put it back in the safe; In January this year, he stole 15 gold bars from the safe on four occasions and sold them for 400,000 yuan.
*: Surging News Guangzhou** New Flower City Editor: Ma Junxian.