Bungling burglars caught hiding in a wardrobe in Madrid

BUSTED: Five house raiders caught red-handed. CREDIT Policía Ciempozuelos Twitter

Five bungling burglars have been arrested in Madrid after setting off a house alarm and hiding in a wardrobe.

THE Local Police in Ciempozuelos, in the south of the Community, received a call from a concerned neighbour yesterday, claiming to have seen five people enter a nearby villa.

A call to the home alarm company corroborated a number of people had entered the property illegally.

Officers from the Local Police and the Guardia Civil were sent to investigate and found four men and a woman hiding in a wardrobe and in other rooms.

All five were arrested.

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