Leader of Professional Thieves Gang: In My Youth Everyone Deceived Me; Even My Wife Stole My Gold While I Was Away From Home/ After 8 Prison Terms, I Decided to Become a Viper!

Since late last year, reports of serial thefts in various neighborhoods of the capital, especially in northern and northwestern Tehran, have been reported to the Tehran Police Criminal Investigation Department.

According to the report of Safir Arjan, Safir Arjan newspaper wrote: The examination of CCTV cameras and the statements of the lost property showed that the members of the criminal gang commit thefts with careful and professional planning.

Their way of working was that 3 people with 2 motorcycles with defaced license plates and covered faces would sit in the streets to ambush the victims. One of the motorcycles, which was a single passenger, was responsible for the main task of hunting and stealing, and upon approaching the citizens, it grabbed their mobile phones in a fraction of a second, and if the thief resisted, the rider would terrorize the prey by pulling a machete and threatening to kill them. At the same time, 2 other accomplices were riding a second motorcycle at a distance of a few meters, and they were responsible for creating fake roadblocks and preventing the pursuit of the main accused.

The operation of tracking this violent network continued until a few days ago, the main accused could not go to the robbery with his accomplices due to catching a cold. This issue changed the fate of the case and exposed this violent network. In the last robbery, the passengers of the accompanying motorcycle, after stealing the phone of a young woman in the northwest of Tehran and intending to escape, did not think that people would immediately intervene and chase them. During this operation, the motorcycle rider lost his balance and the motorcycle overturned. Both accused fell to the ground and before they had the chance to escape or use weapons, they were restrained with the cooperation of citizens and handed over to the police.

2 arrested youths confessed during the interrogations and revealed an important secret. They revealed that the third person and the main leader of the gang is a 50-year-old man named Hamid, known as "Afee", who carries out wiretapping and machete attacks himself. With this clue, the detectives went to the accused's hideout in a house in the west of the capital and arrested him. The members of this 3-member group confessed to serial thefts during the interrogations and the investigation of them continues.

The leader of the gang says that his life of crime started with a stupidity and eventually reached the point where everyone now calls him a viper.

Because I ate so many snakes that I finally became a snake. They gave me this nickname in prison when they heard my story; My youth was full of stupidity and deception; From my accomplices and embezzlers to fraudsters and even my wife. Everyone somehow played and deceived me. In my youth, I kept eating the wood of my simplicity, but little by little I decided to become a wolf.

How many times has Payet been jailed?

This is the 10th time I have been arrested. I have lost count, but I have been imprisoned for between 3 and 7 years each time. If you add up, I've spent most of my life behind bars.

Where was the starting point of this fall and how did you enter the wrong world?

I was 20 years old. I was busy with my work when I received a damn text message: "I am a shepherd and I have found some coins and treasure..." I was fooled. With all the savings and money that I had collected through misfortune, I went on a date in the deserts of one of the western cities of the country. I went to Hawa Ganj, but some people hit me with sticks and clubs, beat me as much as they could and took all my money. I was sick for a few days. Then I said to myself, when they took my money so easily, why don't I take it from others?

yes But I was still naive. I used to steal; But every time I shared with someone, he took off my hat. My accomplices either did not pay my share or ran away. The thieves took the sex that I had stolen with a thousand risks for one-tenth of the price and did not pay for it in full. I even played games in my personal life. When my wife saw that I was a naive person, one day when I was not at home, she took all the gold I had obtained through theft and disappeared, and when I was imprisoned, she divorced me in absentia and left.

So when did you become a snake as you say?

After the seventh or eighth imprisonment. I saw that every trouble that happened to me was because of my simplicity and stupidity. I said that if I go out this time, I have to be versatile myself. Finally, after all these failures, I became a wolf. I was released from prison late last year and formed my own gang. I hired 2 young guys, gave them the role of companion and told them to just follow me. The main robbery, machete and snatching of the phones was done by myself so that no one could put a cap on my head. I thought I was clever this time, but my wits finally got the better of me and made me leak.