'It's nice to be able to call the police when you're stuck,' Kimo said, adding that a case against the boy was now being established, and noting it was possible the car was already unlocked when the suspect opened it. Officers helped the boy out of his self-imposed captivity, questioned him and sent him on his way 'to a hopefully warm Christmas celebration.' The police were quick to answer the call for help, Kimo told the VG newspaper. Kimo added that the boy was 'perhaps not the most knowledgeable car thief,' though noting that on his previous attempts to steal vehicles, 'he was at least able to get out of the car.' The officer explained that the teen was known to local police thanks to a series of petty crimes he'd committed. 'He sounded quite stressed and desperate when he called us, and I think he was relieved when we arrived,' Kimo told the TV2 channel. The intruder managed to get inside the vehicle without doing any damage but was quickly trapped by its centralized locking system. Funnily enough, the scene of the crime was not far from the city's prison, Kimo noted. The teenager had found his way inside a Volvo car parked outside a dealership. Srikakulam: A thief got stuck in a wall hole while escaping with nine grams of silver which he stole from the Jami Ellama temple in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, said a police official. Read more: Video: Bronx mom, 49, wrestles teenage would-be car thief to the ground-'Not today' He knows us quite well and clearly thought it would be OK to call us for help. on Christmas Eve from inside the car he had just broken into. The 17-year-old suspect called police in the central city of Trondheim on Christmas Eve morning, confessing he had trapped himself inside a car he was trying to steal and requesting assistance, The Guardian reported.Įbbe Kimo, the operations manager for the Trøndelag force in central Norway, told state broadcaster NRK that the bungling suspect 'called us just before 8 a.m. Police in Norway arrested a would-be car thief after being tipped off as the crime was in progress-by the perpetrator.

Tiny thief gets trapped