Police on Sunday mentioned that they had detained 5 folks from southern Israel suspected of stealing a soldier’s rifle at gunpoint a week in the past.
Two brothers and one other member of the family aged 22, 18 and 17 had their remand prolonged till Wednesday, when police intend to indict them. They are all Israeli residents from the Negev Desert area of southern Israel.
The three are suspected of threatening a soldier at gunpoint, at the Beit Kama junction north of Beersheba, and bodily assaulting him, earlier than taking his rifle and fleeing the scene.
Police mentioned that they had recovered the soldier’s rifle and the gun allegedly used within the incident. They suspect the incident was legal quite than nationalistically motivated.
As said by the police assertion, the 22-year-old is suspected of taking a household automotive with out permission, going to the West Bank to acquire false license plates, then driving along with his brother and the 17-year-old to seek for a victim.
Two others have been detained for questioning and subsequently launched, police mentioned.