Overview
- Police arrested six Romanian suspects on 27 January near Lampertheim after another break‑in, acting with support from the Polizeipräsidium Darmstadt.
- The men, aged 23, 24, 27, 29, 34 and 37, were ordered into pre‑trial detention on 28 January by an investigative judge at the Amtsgericht Lampertheim on suspicion of serious organized theft.
- Fachkommissariat 47 of the Nürnberger Kriminalpolizei is leading the probe in coordination with the Staatsanwaltschaft Ansbach.
- Investigators attribute at least eight burglaries between November 2025 and January 2026 to the group at solar parks in Neuendettelsau, Heilsbronn, Petersaurach, Röckingen and Mühlhausen.
- The perpetrators forced entry to fenced sites and cut copper‑rich string cables, with officers seizing a large quantity of suspected stolen cable valued in the low six‑figure range and continuing to examine links to further cases in Mittelfranken and elsewhere in Germany.