Flying burglar grounded at airport

Chennai: Imagine asking your co-passenger in a plane, "So, what do you do?" and the man replying, "Well, I'm a burglar." While one can be certain that Tohail Ahmed did not go about revealing his profession to his fellow passengers looking for small talk, police claim that he did frequently fly down from Bangalore to Chennai with the sole purpose of committing theft.
Anna Nagar police is slowly unravelling the mystery behind a number of house break-ins in the city as Ahmed (32), went into the confessional mode after the court sent him to police custody. Ahmed, a native of Cuddalore who went on to settle in Bangalore, was caught by immigration authorities 10 days ago at the Chennai airport while trying to flee to Malaysia. Police sources said he was under watch and that is why immigration authorities arrested him.
"His involvement was confirmed by fingerprint analysis. He has also owned up many burglary cases. We are in the process of recovering the valuables which he had stolen from many houses in the city," a senior police official told The Times Of India.
Ahmed, according to the official, had been an innovative burglar. "All along, he had been involved in house break-ins. He came down from Bangalore and burgled houses in Chennai. He then went back to Bangalore and sold the ornaments and other valuables there," the official said.
Some policemen said that Ahmed would fly down to Chennai and hire a taxi from the airport to go around the city to identify houses he would target. They said he splurged the money he got through house break-ins to live in style and always dressed well to give no hint of his profession.
22/01/09 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Jan 2009