Police arrest one for robbing Kutaisi city hall media centre
Police seized the stolen equipment following the arrest, the ministry said, with the crime punishable by up to five years in prison. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgian police officers have arrested an individual for the robbery of the media centre of the Kutaisi city hall in the west of the country earlier on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.
The development follows reports by local outlets that said journalists of opposition-minded TV Pirveli and Mtavari Arkhi TV channels had found their camera and notebook missing after arriving at the media centre in the morning.
Mtavari Arkhi said a camera footage had shown an intruder breaking a window of the venue before breaking into the centre.
Police seized the stolen equipment following the arrest, the ministry said, with the crime punishable by up to five years in prison.
The armed robber who broke into the Bank of Georgia branch in Georgia’s western city of Kutaisi earlier on Tuesday has been arrested.
Police have arrested one individual after an attempted armed robbery of a Bank of Georgia branch in Tbilisi earlier today. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the detainee broke into the Bank of Georgia branch on Ketevan Tsamebuli avenue to rob the place but failed and tried to flee the scene.
Police have detained two individuals in Tbilisi earlier today who had plans to break in and rob a Spar supermarket on Chitaia street in Chugureti district.
Police have detained a Georgian citizen for premediated murder and car theft in the village of Tkinvali, Ozurgeti Municipality in the western Georgian region of Guria.
Police officers in Tbilisi on Thursday arrested an individual following an armed robbery of a TBC Bank branch in the central Saburtalo district.