/ 30 May 2007

Israeli fails to launder stolen washing machine

An Israeli was charged with burglary after laundry left in a washing machine he was trying to sell showed it had been stolen.

The man raised the suspicions of detectives who spotted him attempting to peddle the appliance on a street in the southern city of Beersheba.

They found he was not a resident and discovered clothes inside the machine.

After arresting him, they linked the laundry to a man who complained his washing machine had been stolen in a break-in, police said. — Reuters