False relative steals ¥500 000 dowry at wedding

A dowry in cash valued at more than 500,000 yuan (US$80,465) from the bride’s family, which was stored in a suitcase, was stolen during a wedding ceremony in Yixing city on 2nd May. Luckily, the police quickly started the investigation and cracked the case. During the wedding ceremony of Xiao Huang, he and members of his and his bride families had been busy after he went to pick up his bride on the morning of that day, and it was not until late in the afternoon that he found the dowry was stolen. The police’s investigation revealed that a female went with the bride’s relatives to the house of the groom and bride, hid in a wardrobe in the attic when relatives of the groom and bride were chatting and having a rest in the attic. After the relatives left, she went to the study room, jimmied the suitcase and stole the money. The woman surnamed Lu suspected of theft was captured by police, and all the stolen money has been recovered.