Crime

Tyre thieves caught in Frankfurt

January 29, 2016 By Graham Tappenden

Two men are accused of stealing a complete set of tyres from an Audi A5 in the early hours of Monday morning (25th January, 2016) in the Mauerfeldstraße in Weißkirchen. The car was left on wooden blocks.

A witness spotted the theft take place at around 1.15am and called the police. A short time later, a similar theft was reported in nearby Königstein, with the vehicle used to transport the tyres fitting the description of the one from Weißkirchen. Armed with the registration number, police were able to look for it specifically and found it in Frankfurt in the Rebstock area at 2am.

The vehicle, a silver van, contained two sets of high-value tyres, one of which was the set from the Mauerfeldstraße. The two suspects, aged 39 and 45, were arrested. Both are of no fixed abode and were presented to the custody judge the same afternoon.

Filed Under: Crime, Other News Tagged With: Frankfurt, Mauerfeldstrasse, thieves, tyres, Weisskirchen

Police called to fight between Asylum Seekers

January 28, 2016 By Graham Tappenden

Police were called to the asylum seekers’ home in the Karl-Herrmann-Flach-Straße on Tuesday evening (26th January, 2016) after a fight broke out between two of the residents.

It is unclear why the fight broke out, and the two residents had been sharing a room. According to police, one hit the other in the face with a saucepan, who retaliated by hitting the first resident on the head with the handle of a kitchen knife.

Both were taken to hospital but later released. Both now face a criminal prosecution.

Filed Under: Crime, Other News Tagged With: asylum seekers, Karl-Herrmann-Flach-Strasse

Cars damaged in the Mauerweg

January 12, 2016 By Graham Tappenden

A number of cars in the Mauerweg in Weißkirchen were damaged in the early hours of Saturday morning (9th January, 2016). Within 200m of each other, seven parked cars had their passenger side wing mirror damaged, police suspect that this was done by kicking them. Some of the mirrors were torn off completely, others only slightly damaged.

A witness reported that she heard a loud bang at around 4.45am and on opening her window saw a man in dark clothing who was doing something to the passenger side of one of the damaged cars. When he realised that she was watching him, he ran off towards “An der Bleiche”.

Anyone with information is asked to call Oberursel police on 06171 6240-0.

Filed Under: Crime, Other News Tagged With: cars, damaged, Mauerweg, mirror, Weisskirchen

Car in Oberstedten damaged

December 28, 2015 By Graham Tappenden

A black Mercedes Vito was damaged in Oberstedten on Saturday/Sunday night (26th/27th December, 2015).

According to police the vehicle was parked in the entrance to a yard, where it was scratched using some form of tool.

The damage is estimated at €1,500.

Filed Under: Crime, Other News Tagged With: Mercedes, scratched, Vito

Cars broken into on two nights

December 27, 2015 By Graham Tappenden

Not just homes were being targeted by thieves this week. On Monday a BMW 7 series was broken into Sunday (2oth December, 2015) night, the driver’s window being removed in the process. The car was in a yard in the Oberurseler Straße. The thieves removed a wallet containing an ID card and a mobile satnav. The damage is estimated at around €600.

The following night considerably more damaged was caused to a BMW in the Hohemarkstraße. This time one of the windows was smashed to gain entry and the thieves removed not only the build-in satnav but also the dashboard display and an airbag! The damage here is estimated to be around €6,000.

Filed Under: Crime, Other News Tagged With: airbag, cars, satnav

Break-ins in Weißkirchen, Oberstedten and Eichwäldchen

December 26, 2015 By Graham Tappenden

The Christmas holidays had hardly started when three break-ins where reported in Oberursel on Tuesday, 22nd December, 2015.

One house in the Mauerfeldstraße in Weißkirchen was broken into by lifting the shutters on the door to the patio and then forcing the door open. Jewellery worth €1,400 was stolen.

In the Hauptstraße in Oberstedten burglars tried to gain access to a house by smashing a double-glazed pation door, but failed due to an additional lock installed on its tracks. Since they could not open that door, they tried to lift a second patio door but did not manage this either. Eventually they apparently managed to force a gap open using a gardening implement, but as this appears not to have been big enough they fled. Even though they did not gain access to the property, they caused considerable damage worth around €2,000.

Finally, between 6pm and 9.30pm burglars entered a house in the Feinbergweg. Here they managed to lift the patio door and and gain access but having search through all the rooms in the property they left empty handed. The damage here is estimated to be around €300.

Filed Under: Crime, Other News Tagged With: break-ins, Eichwaeldchen, Feinbergweg, Hauptstrasse, Mauerfeldstrasse, Oberstedten, Weisskirchen

Driver on drugs caught by police check

August 7, 2015 By Graham Tappenden

A Kawasaki motorcyclist was stopped by police on the Hohemarkstraße on Wednesday, 5th August, 2015. The 33-year-old was found to be driving without a driving license, with false number plates, and under the influence of drugs. He can expect “extensive” criminal charges.

Filed Under: Crime, Other News Tagged With: B455, Hohemarkstrasse

Thief caught in restaurant

April 5, 2015 By Graham Tappenden

In the early hours of Sunday, 29th March, 2015, a 20-year-old man was seen in a restaurant in the Holzweg-Passage taking a mobile phone out of a handbag. The witness spoke to the man about it, at which point he through the phone onto the floor. A number of people then held the accused in the restaurant until the police arrived.

On searching the man, the police found an empty wallet which had previously been reported stolen out of a jacked in another restaurant in the Adenauerallee.

Filed Under: Crime, Other News Tagged With: Adenauerallee, caught, mobile phone, thief

Vandalism at the Deschauer Park

April 3, 2015 By Graham Tappenden

On Monday evening (30th March, 2015), a group of youths were seen damaging a fence in part of the “Deschauer Park”. Around the same time the police received calls about four young people in the Füllerstraße, near the “Deschauer Park”, who had damaged a parked car.

It was later discovered that around 8m of wire-mesh fence on the Körnerstraße side of the park had been damaged, including one of the fence posts, and a number of glass bottles had been thrown against a wooden house on the playground in the park.

A parked VW Polo had had one of its wing mirrors kicked off.

The damage in the park is estimated at €1,500, the damage to the car at €600.

Two police teams found three of the suspects and followed them a short distance on foot before arresting them. The 16 and 17 year olds were under the influence of alcohol, and after questioning they were handed over to their parents. The police are continuing with their enquiries.

Filed Under: Crime, Other News Tagged With: Deschauer Park, Fuellerstrasse, Koernerstrasse, Vandalism

Speed trap on the Königsteiner Straße

December 11, 2014 By Graham Tappenden

Local police set up a speed trap last week on Friday, 5th December, 2014 between 6.55pm and 9.55pm on the Königsteiner Straße (K772) to check cars travelling out of the town on a stretch of road where only 70km/h is permitted.

Of the 200 vehicles that passed, 21 were travelling too fast.

However one car was travelling at 206km/h, meaning that the driver can expect a 3 month ban from driving, a 600 Euro fine and 2 points on their license.

Filed Under: Crime, Other News Tagged With: K772, Koenigsteiner Strasse, Speed trap

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