May he fail!

Theft of sewer manholes in Arkhangelsk has become a headache for the management of the city's housing and communal services. The monthly loss count adds up to tons!

“As soon as we learn about another theft, we try to close the well with a new hatch, which, by the way, costs about four and a half thousand rubles,” complains Sergei Ponomarev, assistant director of the Vodokanal municipal unitary enterprise. “But these covers disappear literally the next day.” Just some kind of disaster!
“Currently, there are six criminal cases in progress regarding the theft of thirty-three caps,” reported the head of the public security police of the Internal Affairs Directorate for Arkhangelsk, Mikhail Ivanov. “We are taking measures, and recently the owners of non-ferrous metals collection points do not risk buying such goods. And yet we cannot assign a policeman to each hatch. They steal...
But recently, the local police were able to significantly alleviate the situation by catching one of the most malicious thieves of cast iron lids. Operatives from the Oktyabrsky district of the city managed to find and neutralize the evildoer, who had several dozen cast items on his account. A dashing thief, 23 years old and with a criminal record for theft in his biography, he plied his trade not only in the Oktyabrsky, but also in the Lomonosov district. It also left several gaping holes in the streets of Talagi village. True, he did it too clumsily: residents of the areas affected by him quickly guessed the connection between the appearance of a young man in their home and the subsequent disappearance of sewer well covers.
As the police found out, the detainee did not unload his loot in Arkhangelsk, which is controlled by the authorities; he was not too lazy to take it to the village of Bakaritsa, where things are simpler there. He spiritlessly drank away the proceeds. Or he played it in slot machines. Actually, it was precisely this activity that the opera found him doing.