Deaf-mute theft gang busted
By Leeann Li |
July 6, 2012, Friday
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A GANG of deaf-mute thieves that spanned several provinces has been busted by police in Dalian, a coastal city in northeastern Liaoning Province.
Police have arrested 59 people, including six organizers and the ringleader, Xu Xiaobing, who is deaf-mute, and seized more than 2.6 million yuan (US$409,240) of ill-gotten assets. Another 160 gang members are still wanted, Dalian police said yesterday.
Xu, 33, controlled 15 networks in 11 provinces and cities, including Anhui, Shanxi and Jiangsu provinces, police said. Xu appointed regional leaders to recruit and manage the deaf-mute thieves.
Xu and eight loyal followers found deaf-mutes on the Internet, falsely claiming to offer jobs, instead kidnapping them and teaching them to be pickpockets. People they lured would be locked up and beaten if they displayed any reluctance, police said Xu told them.
Xu also confiscated their identification cards and other certificates and banned them from contacting each other. He charged every network leader nearly 6,000 yuan per month and held meetings in Dalian to keep tabs on each network every two months.
Yu Guozhu, 50, who headed the gang's business in Liaoning, said he charged high protection fees to gang members, arranged accommodations and dispatched them to designated areas to steal.
To avoid exposure, he set up five secret liaison places and bought seven cars to bring gang members from other regions.
Police said Yu forced the female members to have sex with him and lured some pretty deaf-mutes to be his mistresses.
Police have arrested 59 people, including six organizers and the ringleader, Xu Xiaobing, who is deaf-mute, and seized more than 2.6 million yuan (US$409,240) of ill-gotten assets. Another 160 gang members are still wanted, Dalian police said yesterday.
Xu, 33, controlled 15 networks in 11 provinces and cities, including Anhui, Shanxi and Jiangsu provinces, police said. Xu appointed regional leaders to recruit and manage the deaf-mute thieves.
Xu and eight loyal followers found deaf-mutes on the Internet, falsely claiming to offer jobs, instead kidnapping them and teaching them to be pickpockets. People they lured would be locked up and beaten if they displayed any reluctance, police said Xu told them.
Xu also confiscated their identification cards and other certificates and banned them from contacting each other. He charged every network leader nearly 6,000 yuan per month and held meetings in Dalian to keep tabs on each network every two months.
Yu Guozhu, 50, who headed the gang's business in Liaoning, said he charged high protection fees to gang members, arranged accommodations and dispatched them to designated areas to steal.
To avoid exposure, he set up five secret liaison places and bought seven cars to bring gang members from other regions.
Police said Yu forced the female members to have sex with him and lured some pretty deaf-mutes to be his mistresses.
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