Tel Aviv [Israel], February 9 (ANI/TPS): Police officers from the Northern District arrested five reputed members of a crime organization who were engaged in extorting protection money from construction sites and businesses.

According to the allegations, the suspected criminals caused "significant damage" to a construction site after the site manager refused to accept their "security services." The suspects are also alleged to have stolen equipment from the location.

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The police released images of the damaged equipment.

An indictment was filed against the five suspects, residents of the northern Bedouin town Tuba-Zangariyye.

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The suspects were arrested while they traveled in two vehicles on a highway near the Golani Junction in the Galilee.

The police released a video showing officers enact an ambush on the vehicles on the highway. (ANI/TPS)

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