Case of stolen weapons and military equipment from the IDF solved – two regular soldiers (residents of the North) were arrested. Detectives from the Central Unit of the Coastal District and the Military Police Investigator opened a joint investigation.

Following the investigation, which included both overt and covert operations, the identities of the suspects in the acts were revealed, and two regular soldiers, residents of the Northern region, were arrested on suspicion of stealing weapons. Today, an indictment was filed with the District Military Court against the two soldiers, charging them with a series of weapons offenses, primarily taking weapons from the army’s possession and arms trafficking. The investigation revealed that over a period of several months, the main defendant in the case, who serves in a technical role in a combat battalion, exploited his access to tents where combat soldiers in the battalion slept, and stole three assault rifles. In another incident, the defendant took an MAG machine gun, which was placed on a military vehicle in assembly areas as part of readiness for operational activity. According to the indictment, three of the thefts were carried out together with another soldier, a friend of the defendant, who does not serve with him in the battalion. It is further described that the defendants jointly sold three of the stolen weapons for over one hundred thousand NIS on each occasion.