Witnesses help police arrest two shop burglars in St Barbara

Two men were arrested after breaking into a shop in St Barbara im Mürztal overnight into Thursday, ORF reported. Witnesses saw the break-in and alerted police.

The men, aged 18 and 20 and from Upper Styria, smashed the glass in the shop’s entrance door in the Mitterdorf im Mürztal district. Police quickly identified and arrested them using the witness descriptions.

Police recovered cash worth a low three-figure sum in euros. Both men admitted to the break-in during questioning and were taken to Leoben prison on the order of the Leoben public prosecutor’s office.