GERMAN COPS DETAIN SUSPECT IN DRESDEN JEWEL HEIST

German police have detained another suspect linked to the spectacular jewelry heist in Dresden's Green Vault museum, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) reported.

The 21-year-old man was detained in Berlin, a Dresden police spokesman said on Monday evening. Police are still searching for his twin. German police arrested three suspects in November this year and launched an international manhunt for the two brothers in connection to the November 19, 2019 dawn raid on Dresden's Green Vault museum, home to one of Europe's finest treasure troves.

Investigators said at the time the men were members of a sprawling Arab family known to police as the Remmo Clan in Berlin's criminal underworld.

Before dawn on November 25 last year, two people broke into Dresden's opulent Green Vault museum through a barred window and smashed a display case with an axe, making away with diamonds and other jewels. The operation lasted a matter of minutes.

The Green Vault thieves fled Dresden by car, driving nearly 200 kilometers north on the autobahn to Berlin, the Dresden prosecutor's spokesman said. The high-powered getaway vehicle was reportedly disguised as a taxi.

The bandits had used another car to escape the scene of the crime, before leaving that vehicle in an underground garage a few kilometers from the museum and setting it alight. The loot swiped in the heist is considered priceless. The Dresden White Diamond and the Polish Order of the White Eagle were among over two dozen items stolen.

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