One of the perpetrators of the armed robbery of the jewelry store in Paskuqan arrested

Tirana Police and officers of Police Station No. 5 have arrested one of the suspected perpetrators of the armed robbery that occurred in Paskuqan.

It is reported that Argys Kalsi has been taken into custody; according to sources, he was arrested at Qafë Thanë while trying to leave Albania.

It is learned that as he attempted to cross the border, Kalsi was stopped and arrested by police services.

Sources indicate that the young man had been identified days earlier by Tirana Police as one of the suspected perpetrators of the robbery.

However, his arrest had been postponed because investigators were keeping him under surveillance and carrying out other investigative actions in order to identify and capture the second accomplice.

Meanwhile, Tirana Police continues investigations to identify and arrest the second suspected perpetrator of the robbery.

Police announcement:

Kamëz/Intensive investigative actions continue to identify and capture the perpetrators of the theft of a quantity of jewelry from a jewelry store in Kamëz on 05.08.2026.

One of the suspected perpetrators is identified, caught and handcuffed.

During the investigation period, the automatic firearm, motorcycle, clothing, silicone masks and a magazine with cartridges are seized.

Crime Investigation Specialists of Police Station No. 5, as a result of intensive investigative and procedural work carried out over several weeks, using proactive methods, under the direction of the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office, have finalized the coded operation “Gold,” making possible the identification, capture and arrest of the citizen:

-A. K., 35 years old, resident in Laç.

From investigations, it is suspected that this citizen, in cooperation with another citizen who has not yet been identified, stole a quantity of jewelry from a jewelry store on 05.08.2026, and then fled on a motorcycle.

Following uninterrupted investigative actions and intensive field searches, on 06.08.2026, in a wooded area of the village of Zgafnur, an automatic firearm, a magazine with cartridges, a motorcycle helmet painted gray, two silicone masks, a pair of gloves, and other clothing suspected of being used by the perpetrators during the criminal offense were found and seized as material evidence.

Also, on 09.08.2026, at the place called “Liqeni i Qinamit,” in the village of Qinam, a motorcycle suspected of being used by the perpetrators during the criminal offense was found and seized as material evidence.

Work continues to identify and capture the other accomplice, as well as to fully document the case.

The procedural materials were handed over to the Prosecutor’s Office for the criminal offenses “Robbery with violence committed in cooperation” and “Unauthorized possession and production of explosive weapons and ammunition.”