Daily Star - Rental car scam busted, Nabatieh women catch jewelry thief, November 3, 2011

BEIRUT: Two men were arrested as they attempted to rent a car in the northern Beirut suburb of Jdeideh, intending to steal it and resell in the Bekaa, police said Wednesday. According to a statement issued by the Internal Security Forces, police arrested the two men as they were renting a car at an agency in Jdeideh using a fake driver’s license. The ISF had earlier warned that it was cracking down on rental car theft. The ISF said the two suspects confessed that they were intending to sell the car in the Bekaa and also admitted to renting a car in 2006 using fake documents, adding that one of the suspects was wanted on charges of auto theft and counterfeiting. Elsewhere, in the southern town of Nabatieh, a group of women caught a thief and handed him over to the police, the National News Agency reported. According to the NNA, a 29-year-old Syrian man entered a woman’s home in the neighborhood of Ain al-Jamal in Nabatieh and requested that she feed him. While the woman was preparing a meal, the man began to steal her jewelry. The woman’s screams were heard by neighbors, who appended the thief and handed him over to the police.