A man who calmly told staff at a Carphone Warehouse 'I'm going to rob you now' before taking mobile phones worth over £40,000 has been jailed. Marin Dumitru threatened to stab three members of staff as he carried out the robbery at the store in Victoria Retail Park in Netherfield back in October 2018.
22-year-old Dumitru went on to flee the country, heading to Romania and then Germany, before an international arrest warrant was executed and he was eventually brought back to the UK. When he carried out the robbery, Dumitru was on bail for stealing thousands of pounds worth of mobile phones in Winchester back in March 2018, carrying out two daring thefts on the same day - both at 02 stores where he stole iPhones and Samsungs.
Then, on October 11, he arrived at the Carphone Warehouse with an accomplice - first posing as a customer before revealing to staff that this was a robbery. He had visited the store on multiple occasions in the two weeks prior, Nottingham Crown Court was told, preparing to steal thousands of pounds worth of phones.
