A police patrol noticed the suspicious movement of a trailer truck and followed it to a rest house in Al-Melaihima district in east Riyadh late Thursday.

When the patrolmen approached the parked truck, three men jumped out and fled. Police were able to apprehend the men.

The cables were new and of varying dimensions. The load was sent from a manufacturing factory to a distributor but on the way the truck driver sold the shipment to a third party without the knowledge of the factory. The three men were handed over to the Al-Hamra police station and investigations are under way.