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Eastern Uusimaa Police have reported a scam involving the sale of tickets to a non-existent event in Martinlaakso, Vantaa. The tickets, advertised on Snapchat, were sold for prices ranging between €2.50 and €10, with buyers told the event would take place on Vihertie. According to police, between 50
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The Eastern Uusimaa Police Department has launched a search for a 10-year-old boy who disappeared in the Jumbo shopping centre in Vantaa on Thursday evening. The boy was last seen in the Prisma store at around 18:00 (Ilta-Sanomat, Iltalehti). According to police, the boy is wearing
Society
Police in Eastern Finland are searching for a 66-year-old man who went missing in Nokia on Thursday morning. The man was last seen on Näsiänkatu, and authorities are urging the public to assist in locating him. The missing man is described as being of small stature, wearing black
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Police are investigating a shooting incident in the sparsely populated area of Marjovaara in Ilomantsi, where gunfire struck a residential property last Friday afternoon. A local resident reported hearing between four and five gunshots between 4:00 and 5:00 PM. Shortly afterward, bullets passed through the treetops of the
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In the late hours of Wednesday night, intruders broke into the Ebike Center store in Tammisto, Vantaa, using a small tractor to smash through a window and steal three high-end electric bicycles. The incident occurred at 22:54, when the suspects rammed a loader with forklift spikes into the
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Southwest Finland Police have concluded a preliminary investigation into a series of secret filming incidents involving a former school assistant, with the most extensive offences occurring at St. Olof’s School’s upper and lower secondary schools in Turku. The suspect, a 25-year-old man, is accused of installing
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A man born in the 1990s has confessed to slashing the tires of approximately 30 cars in Raahe’s Kummati area since spring, according to the Oulu Police. The vandalism spree, which began earlier this year, targeted parked vehicles, with some cars suffering damage to multiple tires. The police apprehended
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Police in Loviisa responded to a report of a man armed with a firearm on Thursday afternoon, following an incident in which shots were fired at a scooter. Yle reports that the emergency call was received around midday, with eyewitnesses stating the man had discharged the weapon at a scooter
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The Päijät-Häme District Court has remanded two men into custody following separate incidents of suspected intimate partner violence in Lahti. Both cases were heard on Wednesday, with the suspects facing serious charges, including attempted homicide and aggravated firearms offences. Attempted Homicide in Keski-Lahti A 50-year-old man
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Police in Turku are urgently searching for a 23-year-old autistic man who went missing on Wednesday evening. The man disappeared between 19:30 and 23:30 from either the Nummi area or the nearby Student Village (Ylioppilaskylä), according to authorities. Ilta-Sanomat reports that the man is not
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Police in Kuopio are searching for a seven-year-old girl who went missing on Wednesday afternoon in the city center. The child was last seen around 16:30 on Vuorikatu. The missing girl is described as approximately 120 centimeters tall with a slender build. She has light-colored, bobbed
Crime
On Wednesday afternoon, police conducted a coordinated operation in the Southern Harbour area of Helsinki, leading to the detention of two individuals in connection with a suspected stolen vehicle. The incident, which unfolded before 3:00 PM, involved multiple police units, including patrol cars and a motorcycle officer, as well