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The arms thieves from the Cacak stockpile destroyed the markings, planning to sell their loot.
The law enforcement officials of the Police Unit in Cacak, Military Intelligence Agency and Military Police have successfully resolved the case of rifle theft from the military stockpile in only two weeks. Days before the inspectors were tracing the perpetrators, Mladen Plazinic (21) and Milos Djolovic (21), so the former threw away his mobile phone to the septic street hatch.
Yesterday afternoon, the investigative judge of the High Court in Cacak, Branko Milovanovic, assigned detention up to 30 days for both young men, on the grounds of committing a crime of arms and ammunition theft.
The accused young men who are friends from school days, seeking a way to earn money made a plan to rob the military stockpile in Cacak Street "Dr Dragise Misovica". The stockpile of weapons, military equipment and vehicles of old generation, is a part of the Storage Battalion from Gornji Milanovac, a unit within the Central Logistics Base of the Serbian Army.
In the night between 19th and 20th January the perpetrators drove in Plazinic's "Golf" to the South magazine fence and cut the wire in two places with a shear. Having entered the stockpile zone, they came to the magazine, broke the padlock and opened a case inside it. The case contained 22 automatic rifles, so they took the entire case, put it in their car trunk, and went back to the magazine. They opened another case and took out six machine guns together with a carbine that was nearby, and a signal pistol.
They carried their loot to the village of Lisa, in Ivanjica's zone, and left it in an abandoned house of Djolovic's grandfather. After that, they came back to Cacak, where Plazinic threw the shears in the Morava River. They went again to Lisa the next day, taking with them a hone with which they erased the serial numbers from all the rifles in order to hide their origin. They moved the grinded weapons from the ground floor to the attic, where it was found eventually. Only the signal pistol was missing.
The accused young men gave a statement before the investigative judge, describing how the theft was carried out.