KUWAIT CITY, Jan 28:  Police have arrested an expatriate working in a mobile phone shop for blackmailing a girl and demanding that she pay him KD 500 if she didn’t want her photos to be posted on the Internet, reports Al-Rai daily.
The girl had sold her iPhone and was surprised when the employee, who managed to recover the deleted data, started blackmailing her.
The girl pretended to agree to the blackmailer’s terms and reported the matter to police who put the employee under surveillance and arrested him shortly after he called the girl. The man has been referred to authorities.

Family of cheats: Hawalli police have arrested a Syrian woman, believed to be in her 60s, for swindling a number of Kuwaitis, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
The woman allegedly sold imaginary real estate properties outside the country to her victims at very low prices. Acting on complaints, police raided her apartment in Jabriya and arrested the woman and her two sons.
The sons too were wanted by law for issuing dud cheques.

‘Save my soul’:  A 22-year-old non-Kuwaiti actress, identified only as L, has appealed to senior officials in the Ministry of Interior and human rights organizations to intervene and save her life by canceling a deportation order issued against her, reports Al-Anba daily.
The actress, whose nationality has not been disclosed, said her father and cousins were against her acting career and that they will kill her as soon as she reaches her homeland. 
She added that she was summoned to Sulaibiya Police Station in a civil case filed by a company and that she was ready to solve the problem. However, she was shocked on learning that her husband, a Syrian, cancelled her residency last September without her knowledge. She said this in itself is a violation of the law because she is not divorced. The actress said it was a trap laid by her husband and her brother who is also an actor and lives in Kuwait.