fingered teenage Yemeni has been arrested in Jeddah for the theft of mobile telephones and handbags from pedestrians in public areas. Police, acting on numerous reports from the public, kept the areas where the pickpocket was known to operate under surveillance and caught the thief in the act of committing a crime. The man is being held for investigations into his relation to a large number of similar incidents and police are looking into the possibility that he worked with accomplices.
