Prague criminal police team arrests 19 members of pick-pocketing group

A special team of Prague’s criminal police on Monday arrested 9 Rumanians and their Czech accomplices who had been preying on senior citizens. The group operated in and near post-offices, where they approached senior citizens who had just withdrawn money from their bank account with the post office. The pick-pockets are said to have distracted their victims by asking them for directions. Active over several months, the group is suspected to have been responsible for 42 acts of pick-pocketing and to have caused damages totaling about a half million Czech crowns.