Car thieves arrested: Police captured a middle-aged women yesterday known for running a three-man ring that was allegedly behind a chain of recent car thefts in Cairo and selling them with fake documents, security sources have said. After a thorough investigation, police knew that three unemployed men were involved in the thefts, they said. The police raided the homes of the three men in el-Zawya el-Hamra, east Cairo, where they seized five bogus IDs, eight proxies and a number of fake documents, they said. Under questioning, it emerged that a woman was running the gang , whom the police arrested and referred to the prosecutor's office for proper action, the sources said. Act of revenge: The ex-wife of a Cairo agronomist has confessed to instigating the murder of her husband as an act of revenge, police sources said yesterday. The woman, whose name would be withheld for legal reasons, admitted to hiring five bullies to kill her former husband to avenge his taking a second wife. The woman, whose bail application was turned down, told police that she had ordered the bullies to raid her ex-husband's house and stab him to death. But, the revenge plot had failed because the victim survived the murder bid and was hospitalised with serious knife stabs he had sustained after the attack, the police said. They said that the woman, who had been referred to the prosecutor's office, would face charges of instigating murder. Fake police officers: Three unemployed men will face a legal action for impersonating police officers and stopping citizens at a fake road check points in the remote areas of the capital, legal sources said yesterday. Many Cairo residents complained that they had been stopped by three uniformed police officers, who had robbed them off their money and personal belongings after frisking them on the pretext of security reasons, the sources said. Police investigations showed that three young men were behind these incidents, which occurred in some deserted areas of the capital, they added. Police identified them as Ahmed Hamedo,20, Amr Abu Zeid, alias Amr el- Kuwaiti, and Hussein Farid, 26. The three men, whom the victims identified them in police line-up, were referred to the Cairo prosecutors, who ordered an urgent court trial for them. Young killers jailed: Damanhur Juvenile Criminal Court has imprisoned two adolescents aged l7 to l5 years after they were convicted of murdering a mutual friend. The two young men were charged with murdering their friend, a young driver of the three-wheeler, commonly known as tok tok, to steal his money. The two young men confessed to luring the victim to a remote place, where they had jointly strangled him to death with a scarf. In order to hide their crime, they dumped their friend's body in a canal. But, few days later the police arrested the culprits who had no choice but to confess.
