Two Palestinian Arab residents of Ad-Dhahiriya were arrested near the city of Efrat in Judea on suspicion of car theft last week. Detectives made the arrest after the suspects contacted the vehicles' original owners and offered to return them in exchange for a financial ransom. During the arrest, a shot was fired in the air by one of the detectives after the suspects tried to escape. A security guard who was near the area of the incident also fired at the suspects, slightly wounding one of them.