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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 18:13 |
 There were various theft cases in the capital area yesterday but theft cases are nearly daily as was said in the announcement. From what the police says are the most common items cosmetics and clothing but the thieves are of all age and both sexes.
"We are almost to the point where nothing surprises the police anymore when it arrives at the scene and finds children, youths or elderly persons who have been caught stealing. |
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Friday, 20 November 2009 11:42 |
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 The police of Sudurnes has now been searching high and low for the car of Sigridur Bjork Gudjonsdottir, police chief of Sudurnes, which was stolen yesterday. Visir reported about it this morning that the car of the priest of Keflavik church had been stolen but the priest is the husband of Sigridur Bjork.
The car is a Volvo s60. Keflavik church was broken into yesterday and the thiefs got the keys to the car there. According to the information from the police in Keflavik is the town being searched in hopes of finding the Volvo owned by the police chief and the priest.
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:28 |
 Ragna Arnadottir minister of justice and human rights has set a work group to see what chances are at hand within the valid law and international co-operation to intensify surveillance on foreigners and insure that the authorizations that are at hand are being used to eradicate organized crime here in Iceland.
In an announcement from the ministry says that this is about both the foreigners who are using their rights about free travel according to the contract about the European economy zone and those who are outside of that right. |
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 12:48 |
 The police of Sudurnes is looking for a Lithuanian woman who they suspect of being a victim of human trafficing. The woman traveled to Iceland by the name of Ieva Grisiúte but it is thought that the travel identification she had are stolen.
The woman came here to Iceland by flight on Friday night and was transferred to the hospital nearly unconscious after loosing her temper in the airplane for the last part of the way. She stayed in the hospital for the night but the night after in the Police station by her own request. She said that she had no place to go and not know anyone in Iceland. She could not explain why she was in Iceland. |
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 14:05 |
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 Five alleged drug smugglers have been arrested by the customs authorities in Keflavik airport in one week. They are now all in custody of the police but requests of further custody have been filed.
This last weekend were two Polish men arrested when they came from Warshaw in Poland. They were carrying 6000 extacy pills hidden in cans.
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009 14:10 |
 The economic crime department of the national commissioner of the Icelandic Police has warned about employment advertises that were published in Morgunbladid on 19th and 29th of August and on September 8th, with the title "Job opportunity".
If a person interested contacts the advertisers are they sent a check to exchange in the Icelandic banks. Then they are asked to send the main amount to an adress in Nigeria with Western Union. |
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Friday, 11 September 2009 13:58 |
 The housing of two collages were burglarised last night. The schools in question were Menntaskolinn vid Sund and Fjolbrautarskolinn vid Armula.
A window was broken up in the housing of Menntaskolinn vid Sund where the student facilities are. The thiefs went in and took a projector and three laptops, said the rector Mar Vilhjalmsson.
Then the housing at Armuli 10 which FA is renting was burglarised. |
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Monday, 07 September 2009 16:29 |
 Catalina Mikue Ncogo hired a carrier to transport close to 400 grams of cocaine from Amsterdam to Iceland through a newspaper ad. This is what one of the carriers claimed in the main hearing of the case at the district court of Reykjaness yesterday. Visir has covered this case before, but the carriers who were two Belgian women 26 and 31 years old were both ruled for ten months in jail for the smuggling. They were arrested in Leifsstod when arriving to Iceland on April 12th this year. |
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 06:14 |
 Around 11.30 pm last night was a call to the Police in the capital area about a dead man in a rental housing in Hafnarfjordur. Manslaughter had been discussed in the dispatch from what the police said.
When the police arrived at the scene was a man found there dead with injury to his head in the rental housing. |
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Monday, 17 August 2009 06:43 |
 There was a break in in a freezer container in Kopavogur last night. The thiefs took between seven and eight hundred kilos of meats, mostly ground beef and hamburgers. The employees reported about the theft just before 6am this morning.
Then a trailer located close to Seljaskoli was burglered as well and a television taken from there. It is likely that the burglars have broken in other places around the neighborhood. |
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Friday, 14 August 2009 14:13 |
 One of the most known criminals in Brazil is now in custody in Iceland after he was arrested with a fake passport at Keflavik airport yesterday according to the website of Visir.
Hosmany Ramos who is a plastic surgeon is wanted in Brazil and is said to have a long criminal record. Neither the police in Reykjanes nor the district court of Reykjaness wanted to confirm the news when the Morgunbladid looked for a confirmation.
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 14:44 |
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The police of the capital area could not tend to the surveillance in the neighborhoods of the capital city as was aimed for this weekend. The summer vacations are in the peaks now and lately and only thirteen police officers on each general shift and so has the surveillance been limited. "The police force is smaller in numbers because of cut backs compared to same time last year," says Geir Jon Thorisson chief constable. |
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Monday, 27 July 2009 13:42 |
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The police received five reports about break ins between 7am - 11am this morning. Four of the break ins were into cars within a short period of time in Stadarhverfi in Grafarvogur. There was also a break in into a tool shed at Holtavegur. The thieves stole fishing rods and radar detectors from the vehicles. The police wants to remind people to not leave valuables in cars that could tempt.
News Article by Jon Hakon Halldorsson
Translated by Anya
Original Article in Icelandic |
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Monday, 13 July 2009 13:32 |
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 Roughly half of the inhabitants of Reykjavik city or around 56% think that break ins are the largest problems in their neighborhood according to the new public survey made by Capacent Gallup for the police of the capital area.
This ratio is much higher than measured in other surveys which were made a year ago, but at that time a third of the persons who answered said that break ins were the main problems.
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:59 |
 There were 80% more break ins reported last month compared to the same month last year. Thefts increased quite a bit between the years as well, or 38%. This is written in the crime statistics of the national police chief. Traffic violations and drug related cases are reducing on the other hand.
Last month were 303 break ins reported country-wide. In may last year were 167 break ins reported and 187 in 2007. |
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 07:43 |
The police was called to Fellahverfi in Breidholt shortly after midnight because of a man threatening residents with a machete. He had left his own apartment and threatened other residents in the stairway of the house. When the police arrived had the carpet been set on fire in the stairway and it is thought that the man had set fire to it.
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Monday, 18 May 2009 16:06 |
Enormous increase has been of break-ins between the years and were 70% more break-ins registered with the police in April this year than same month last year. Theft cases have also increased considerably or around 45% between the years.
This is included in an overview from the office of the national police chief. |
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:32 |
 The police of the capital area has now informed that roughly half of the drugs that were smuggled to Iceland with the sail boat Sirtaki from the mainland of Europe was amphetamine or in total 55 kilograms. In total the police seized 109 kilograms of drugs.
Then they seized 34 kilograms of marijuana, 19,5 kilograms of hash and 9400 ecstasy pills.
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Thursday, 07 May 2009 23:24 |
 The police of Eskifjordur pulled the plug on a cannabis farm on a farmland in Berufjordur. It was said in the news of the national radio that the cultivation had been on the first stage but with the tools and equipment at the scene it was evident that this production could have been enormous. The production was remotely controlled with high tech computer equipment.
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Tuesday, 21 April 2009 23:03 |
 The sailboat Sirtaki, which was used to transport 109 kilos of illegal drugs to Iceland last week, was sailed with sails up out Eskifjordur this afternoon. The sailboat arrived there this morning with the escort of the coast guard ship Tyr but now they are transferring the sailboat.
From what Jonas Vilhelmsson chief constable of Eskifjordur said, is the sailboat still in the custody of the police there. On the other hand they decided to transfer it to a safer location since it is not easy to store it in Eskifjordur harbor. |
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Monday, 20 April 2009 18:35 |
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 The sail boat which the coast guard tracked down on the Atlantic ocean yesterday, carries the name Sirtaki and is 40 foot long, registered in Belgium according to the information from the police of the capital area.
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