After the events in a hotel in the center of Vilnius, a police investigation: the truth was revealed in the videos

And the hotel management was still very lucky: the employee focused on the money that belonged to the hotel and did not, as often happens, cleaned the guests who were staying here. Unbelievable, but not even the installed video camera stopped it; Knowing that he was being filmed, the man who wanted to take money from strangers organized a real performance. True, their performance became apparent very quickly: the installations were not only filmed, but the sound was also recorded. And it was the conversations captured by the video camera that became perhaps the most important piece of evidence when the police launched an investigation into the robbery.

The hotel management contacted the law enforcement officers as soon as they realized that their employee had committed the theft; he was at work that day, but did not even realize that the police had been called.

The head of the hotel’s administration gave the officials who had arrived a written statement, videos proving the theft, and then told them that he had received information from the receptionist as soon as he arrived at work in the morning.

“He said that 200 euros had disappeared from the box office, and also indicated the approximate time when the robbery took place,” said the head of the hotel administration. “I went to my office and checked the video surveillance cameras, which confirmed that an employee who had recently started working for our company took money from the cash register and gave it to a stranger who came to the hotel.”

The woman reported the theft to the hotel manager, and it was later decided not to convict her and to call the police immediately.

Officials who arrived soon arrested Tom M., who had only worked here for four days, on suspicion of being hired by his employer; It was only when the pre-trial investigation began that the hotel management discovered that it had given the job to a drug dealer. addict who had been convicted three times before. He was convicted of acquiring and possessing drugs, as well as robbery, one of whom worked as a merchandise controller in a home delivery company owned by one of the largest supermarkets in the country; After work, security guards who knew of the sight robbed him from the hallway of the mall.

Tomas M., who was prosecuted for the money stolen from the hotel cashier, immediately pleaded guilty, but played down his role by not knowing that the video cameras had captured not only the image but also the sound. And it was the sound that was recorded and helped uncover the crime.

The video captured Tom M. standing at the front desk and using a computer, and when a man suddenly appeared at the hotel, he squatted under the table so he couldn’t see him. When the man left, Tom M., who was working as an assistant, went to the office, which is not filmed, but a sound is heard. And then Tom M. starts talking on the cell phone.

In the criminal case, only the words spoken by Tom M. over the phone are cited: “Can you bring? Why? Come on, I’ll give you … How much? So (can’t hear – past). I still brought it to you yesterday and today. What 23. No. shit, the same and (you don’t hear it again, past), if he has little, that’s what I’ll do. And I still gave you a check today, did you take it? Why? Did you take it or not? Don’t talk (don’t listen – past), check for you personally, check for you. Difficult to drive? Yes, and Mass one, for me karočia five and you two, 42 euros (not heard, past), you come and I run away. Just say 5. Just 42, you alone and him alone. Well, damn, I’ll be leaving tomorrow. What three, one, one? So no, yes, me 5, you after 1. Yes, yes, yes. I am 5 years old and you are looking. 42 euros, let’s say (I don’t listen – past), because it’s not here, it’s nothing. You know where to go here, uh, that, you gave it, let’s go and where we turn, here on the corner there is a hotel in front, call. His, his, well, so at the intersection here at the entrance, I’ll run out of there. You gave, you gave. “

After this conversation, Tom M. returns to the hotel reception and opens the cash register, then closes it and turns off the video surveillance program when he reaches the computer, which shows the activated program with images of the rooms filmed in real time. And then, noticing that the video camera is not filming, you reopen the cash register, take an invisible bill, hold it in your hand, then start counting the money at the cash register, entering the numbers into the calculator, recalculating the money. several times. times and helping. After a few minutes, he takes an invisible amount of money in the palm of his hand and closes the cash register.

Tom M., who had the money, returned to the filming office and spoke on the phone.

“Alio, are you going out? – Voice recording of the voice of a hotel employee. – And will you have a refund of 3 euros? Well, you have three euros of the 45, it’s not at the box office today, right, soon? Well, you gave, you will write when. “

After this conversation, Tom M. returned to the reception desk, put the phones on the desk in a drawer, and soon left the hotel. He soon returned and returned to the hotel box office; when he opened it, he took a bill, of whatever denomination, which is not seen in the register. Holding the money, he decided to return it to the register, and since his back was to the camera, he couldn’t see exactly whether he was taking the money bank or leaving it in the register. Then he decided to call someone, a conversation began at the hotel entrance.

“Listen, have you left or not yet? – Tom M.’s recorded words are quoted below. – Listen to me, come to me, there is nothing here, leave it there, it will show you where the front door is, I need it here (I cannot be heard – it happens), I’ll tell you kind, Your man kind, I gave you money kind I change karočia“I can’t get out of here, you gave, you gave.”

After this conversation, Tom M. walked around for a while, took advantage of the computer, and then opened the cash register, which he left open. Soon the guests who stayed here showed up at the hotel, the man was chatting with them, and when he wished for a quiet night and they went to his room, he called the phone.

“Hello! – only Tom M’s words are quoted. – No, go to the intersection, go to the intersection, to the main one where thirteen walks, here goes is next (inaudible – past). No, no, no, you here, go straight here, the hotel is basically here, well, you see, you gave ”.

After this conversation, the hotel receptionist went back to the cash register, opened it, put in the money, and then added the cash register, but did not close it. A minute later, a man arrived at the hotel that Tom M. was interacting with.

“Good morning,” he said.

“Look, now I’ll give you, kind I change money, okay? – Without knowing that not only the image is recorded but also the sound, the hotel receptionist spoke. When the man nodded in his favor and said something vaguely, Thomas M. continued his performance.

“Look, now I’m going to give you a lot of money, you give me … table da, well, (don’t listen, pass) from that pile, it’ll be in one place, “he said.

And the man who came came told him that it was “2 euros”.

“He’ll get 45 from here, I’ll give him type 2 after 50,” said Tom M., who put the money on the table, only the amount was impossible to see. – Now take them all. Give two hundred. All right, give me two hundred. “

“Two hundred”, the hotel guest put the money in his wallet. “Where are the cameras here? Wait, I’ll put them up.”

“Get off,” Tom M. repeats, and the arriving man puts something vague and invisible on the folded notes and hands it to the hotel manager.

After a few more seconds of conversation, an unidentified person left the hotel, but before that, Tom M. wondered why he was not going directly to the hotel, but there: “Or chuli you, bl .. from there? There, if you turn right, you can go down here, you can go here … “

When Tom M. learned that the hotel’s video cameras were capturing not only the image but also the sound, he immediately pleaded guilty to stealing the money. The man, who had just worked a few days, said that after taking the money, he paid off the drug debt with his friend.

“I have been using drugs for about 20 years, I have received addiction treatment, I even spent a few years in a rehab center, I stopped using them, but I came back, not constantly, but intermittently, in other words, ‘at the opportunity’ “said Thomas M. during the survey. I also used drugs when I got a job in a hotel, I was in debt for drugs at the time because I was in debt to them. The people I owed had found out where I was working and started calling me demanding a refund. “

The hotel employee assured that he had no money at that time, so he decided to take part of the cash register, he thought that perhaps no one would notice.

“Not wanting any inconvenience, I asked for a few more doses, I thought of giving the money debt at the box office,” said the person in charge. “When a friend came to work for me, I gave him the money, imitating that he was changing it.”

Who is the friend who had come to the hotel ?, Tom did not explain to the officials, that he knows him only by sight, he does not even know where he lives.

The Vilnius resident, who robbed his employer, explained to officials that he regretted such behavior, but if he was sincere, he did not know, it was probably the way he tried to mitigate his responsibility.

“I understand I did not have to do this, but I have already compensated for the damage, my mother helped me get the money back,” said Tom M. “I have some suggestions for working there.”

Prosecutors referred the criminal case against Tomas M. to the Vilnius City District Court. Judge Giedrė Telksnienė, who familiarized himself with the data collected during the pre-trial investigation and evaluated it, took into account the nature and severity of the crime for the fourth time, the form and type of guilt of the perpetrator: “a criminal offense he was engaged.

“The damage caused by the crime is not significant, part of the damage was recovered from the defendant’s salary, the other part was paid by the defendant’s mother, so the damage is currently fully compensated,” said the judge. – The fact that Tomás M. confessed to having committed a crime and sincerely regrets is admitted as a mitigating circumstance, the court also evaluates the data that characterizes the personality of the accused – Tomás M. has been convicted 3 times in the past, in the majority for also convicted abroad, administratively sanctioned, even for the kidnapping of small foreign properties, have valid penalties, currently it is not working anywhere. “

Having evaluated these circumstances, the court ruled that the purposes of the punishment provided for in the criminal law would be achieved by imposing on Tom M. the type of punishment provided for in the legal sanction and proposed by the prosecutor: deprivation of liberty.

“The amount of the penalty proposed by the prosecutor is 1 year of deprivation of liberty, in this particular case it is reasonable and proportionate, so there is no reason to reduce or increase it,” said the judge that the criminal case was examined by a court order, the defendant pleaded guilty.

The court, which sentenced him to 8 months in prison, also imposed on Tom M. the obligation to start work or register with the Employment Service for the entire sentence from 10 pm until 6 pm to be at home if this it is not related to work or health care visits.

“The imposition of these obligations will have a positive effect on the defendant and allow him to reassess his illegal conduct and the consequences of such conduct,” Judge G. Telksnien señaló noted.