Internal Security Forces Arrest Syrian Impersonating Electricity Collector for Bike Thefts in Sidon and Jezzine

The General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces - Public Relations Division issued the following statement:

As a result of intensive investigations and inquiries conducted by elements of the Sidon Judicial Branch of the Judicial Police Unit, and after surveillance and follow-up, its elements managed on 11-10-2026 to arrest the person named: W. W. (born in 1972, Syrian). The aforementioned was impersonating an "electricity collector" and seizing money from some of his victims in exchange for handing them forged receipts. He also deceived other people by claiming he suffered from epilepsy, or what he called "electricity in the head," presenting a forged medical prescription, and seizing monetary amounts from them.

It also became apparent that he had committed theft of motorcycles in the areas of Sidon and Jezzine.

Therefore, based on the instruction of the competent judiciary, the General Directorate of the Internal Security Forces is circulating his photo and requests anyone who fell victim to his actions and recognized him to come to the center of the aforementioned branch located in Harat Saida – Tell Mar Elias, or to contact one of the numbers: 754308-07 / 729147-07, in preparation for taking the necessary legal measures.