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.