Delaware State Police Beat / UBER BURGLAR Saddam Awadallah Robbed his Customer’s Homes After Taking Them to Nightspots in Bethany Beach

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  • While his Uber passengers were away from their residences, he would return to their vacant homes to steal various items. These incidents all occurred in a narrow timeframe during the night while the victims were away. The suspect snatched credit cards, computers, watches, cell phones, tablets, sunglasses, and other various items.

Delaware State Police Beat / Uber Driver Saddam Awadallah Robbed his Customer’s Homes After Taking Them to Nightspots in Bethany Beach

BETHANY BEACH, DEL.  – The Delaware State Police say that an Uber driver used his customer addresses as a hit list for his part-time job of being a house burglar in Bethany Beach, Delaware. While his customers chomped down dinner or swizzled sticks in drinks in bars, he went to work cleaning out their homes.

 

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Delaware State Police spokesman Sgt. Richard D. Bratz reports that in partnership with the Bethany Beach Police Department, the Delaware State Police have arrested a Frankford man after the culmination of a six-month long investigation of multiple burglaries in Sussex County.

The initial investigation began in August 2016 as the Delaware State Police Burglary Unit Detectives could link the suspect, Saddam A. Awadallah, 26, of Frankford, to multiple burglaries in the Bethany Beach and Fenwick Island areas.

Through investigative measures and numerous interviews an Uber driver, identified as Saddam Awadallah, was developed as the suspect in the burglaries. The investigation revealed Awadallah drove a white 2004 Toyota Sienna van and would transport individuals from their residences to local area businesses and restaurants located in the Ocean City and the Dewey Beach areas.

While his Uber passengers were away from their residences, he would return to their vacant homes to steal various items. These incidents all occurred in a narrow timeframe during the night while the victims were away.  The suspect snatched credit cards, computers, watches, cell phones, tablets, sunglasses, and other various items.

While his Uber passengers were away from their residences, he would return to their vacant homes to steal various items. These incidents all occurred in a narrow timeframe during the night while the victims were away.  The suspect snatched credit cards, computers, watches, cell phones, tablets, sunglasses, and other various items.

Saddam A. Awadallah was apprehended in Tennessee and extradited back to Delaware on February 13, 2017, and was formally charged with three counts of Burglary 2nd Degree, Possession of Burglar Tools, Theft with a victim 62 YOA or older, 11 counts of Theft, and Criminal Mischief. Saddam A. Awadallah was arraigned in the Sussex County Court of Common Pleas and subsequently committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution in default of a $31,000.00 secured bond.

These incidents remain under investigation by the Delaware State Police and detectives are asking anyone who may have been a victim or may have any information about these incidents to contact Detective T. Powell at 302-752-3807. If anyone has any information about this incident, they are asked to contact Detective T. Powell at 302-752-3807. Information may also be provided by calling Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333, via the internet at www.delaware.crimestoppersweb.com, or by sending an anonymous tip by text to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword “DSP.”

  • While his Uber passengers were away from their residences, he would return to their vacant homes to steal various items. These incidents all occurred in a narrow timeframe during the night while the victims were away. The suspect snatched credit cards, computers, watches, cell phones, tablets, sunglasses, and other various items.

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