Do You Know Your Neigbour? Maybe You Should.
Not knowing your neighbour could cost you to lose everything inside your home or business, as the case of a man who rented retail space next to a jewellery store so that he could rob it.

The robbery took place in the Tejar de El Guarco, Cartago. The thief made of with ¢15 million colones (us$30.000 dollars) from the Yoyería y Relojería Araya.

According to Ronald Araya, owner of the jewellery store, told police that a man in his fifties came in to beg him to rent him the the space next to his store. Thinking it over for a while, he accepted the man's offer.

The man came in on Wednesday to give Araya the first and last month's rent and received the keys to the space. Thursday morning, when Araya opened his store, he found some of the display cabinets empty and everything strewn on the floor.

Araya immediately thought of the safe where he kept the valuables and found it opened and empty. An aceteline torch had been used to cut through the metal and open the lock. They had all the time, no hurry, since they were neighbours.

Looking for an entry point, Araya discovered that the thieves had come through an opening to the adjacent space rented the day earlier.