BEIRUT: Police arrested Monday a 20-year-old burglar after exchanging fire with him in a car chase north of Beirut, security sources said.
The sources, speaking to The Daily Star on condition of anonymity, said a police patrol spotted Mohammad Ahmad Qassem as he was attempting to break into a motorcycle store in Jdeideh, a northern suburb of the capital, at dawn Monday.
When Qassem saw the patrol, he took off, driving north in a pickup truck. During the chase, Qassem exchanged fire with policemen until the law-enforcement unit managed to hit the vehicle’s rear tire, which allowed the officers to arrest the driver.
Around the same time and place, police were involved in a shootout with several men who were in a Honda CRV that Qassem had apparently been using to provide him with backup.
Police found the silver Honda, with blood inside, sitting under an overpass in the southern Beirut suburb of Lailaki, according to the sources. Under interrogation Qassem said “comrades” in a silver Honda CRV were helping him out in the robbery attempt.
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