DUBAI// Two men have been convicted of stealing 28 car exhausts from a garage.
The Pakistanis, aged 36 and 23, raided the garage in Dubai Investments Park in the early hours of January 13 this year.
When the 33-year-old German owner arrived at 9am that day one of his workers told him the exhausts were missing.
“Customers install new systems and later return to take the old ones, we keep them in the back of the shop,” the owner said, who called police.
The men were arrested in Sharjah. Both denied stealing the exhausts and said they bought them from the garage’s security guard.
However in the Dubai Criminal Court last month the 23-year-old defendant confessed to a charge of theft and told judges the others had no idea they were stolen.
Both men were sentenced to three months in jail.
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