End of Tehran's Viper's Rampage | He Spent Half His Life Behind Bars

The ringleader of the violent phone-snatching gang in the capital is a man known as the Viper, who says that over the years he was deceived so often by criminals that he has become a professional criminal himself.

The leader of the violent Mobile Qapi gang in the capital is a man known as Afi, who, according to himself, has been deceived by criminals so much that he has now become a professional criminal.

Sefir Arjan - Incidents: Since the end of last year, reports of serial robberies in different neighborhoods of the capital, especially in the north and northwest of Tehran, have been reported to the police of the capital.

Examining the surveillance cameras and the statements of the lost property showed that the members of the criminal gang commit thefts with detailed planning and in a professional manner. Their way of working was that the three defendants with two motorcycles with distorted license plates and covered faces would sit in the streets to ambush victims. One of the motorcycles, which was a single passenger, was responsible for the main task of hunting and stealing, and by approaching the citizens, it snatches the mobile phone in a fraction of a second. If the victim resisted, the rider would terrorize the victim by drawing his machete and threatening to kill him. At the same time, two other defendants rode a second motorcycle at a distance of a few meters and were responsible for the role of escort, creating fake roadblocks and preventing the pursuit of the main defendant.

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 a cold. This issue changed the fate of the case and exposed this violent network. In the last robbery, the occupants of the escort motorcycle, after they snatched the phone of a young woman in the northwest of Tehran and tried to escape, did not think that the people immediately intervened and chased them. During this operation, the motorcycle rider lost his balance and the motorcycle overturned. Both the accused were on the ground and before they had a chance to escape or use weapons, they were restrained with the cooperation of the citizens and handed over to the police.

The two 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 the snake 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 continued.

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 tricked me somehow. In my youth, I constantly ate 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 each time I have been imprisoned between 3 and 7 years. If you add up, I've spent most of my life behind bars.

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

I was twenty 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 deceived. 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 until I ate and took all my money. I was sick for a few days and even went to the point of having a stroke. Then I said to myself, when they took my money so easily, why don't I take it from others?

From there I decided to become a thief. 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 that I had stolen and disappeared. When I went to prison, Gabi divorced and left.

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. Because I was released from prison late last year and formed my own gang. I hired two young guys, gave them the role of escort 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 in the end, my tricks got the better of me and made me leak.