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FILE – Mug shot of Abeeb Hussain. (Cambridgeshire Constabulary)\u00a0 <\/p>\n
A man who broke into a home and helped himself to a slice of cake before fleeing the scene over the summer was finally captured this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cake burglar apprehended <\/p>\n
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Abeeb Hussain, 33, was seen on CCTV footage breaking into a home in Peterborough in the United Kingdom on July 26.<\/p>\n
The footage showed Hussain smashing his way into the home from the backyard patio and stealing a Samsung mobile phone. Before leaving, he cut himself a slice of cake in the kitchen and ate it, according to a news release from the\u00a0Cambridgeshire Constabulary.<\/a><\/p>\n In addition to the CCTV footage, investigators were able to link Hussain to the crimes after they found a cigarette butt he left outside the property which had his DNA on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “Hussain\u2019s audacity to help himself to a slice of cake during a burglary is mind-boggling,” police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Hussain, who also goes by Dillon Currie, broke into another property that same night and stole steaks and other grocery items.<\/p>\n On July 27, he broke into another home and stole a 50-inch television, a gold-colored copy of the Quran and a selection of kitchen knives.<\/p>\n When he was arrested on August 1, Hussain was actually carrying the stolen Quran, police said.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this article was taken from a news release published by the Cambridgeshire Constabulary on Nov. 11, 2025. This story was reported from San Jose.\u00a0<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Unusual<\/a>World<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FILE – Mug shot of Abeeb Hussain. (Cambridgeshire Constabulary)\u00a0 A man who broke into a home and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,13591,451,3,452,453,146119,4477],"class_list":{"0":"post-303943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-unusual","16":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}