The Nhava Sheva police in Navi Mumbai have arrested a 20-year-old man and have learnt that after allegedly stealing cars and bikes, he never sold them but in fact rode them until they ran out of fuel and he even gave some of the stolen vehicles to his friends to use, the police said.

According to the police, the man has been identified as Kaushal Patil. The police have claimed that with his arrest as many as nine cases have been solved in which vehicles were stolen. The police have also recovered vehicles worth Rs 3.6 lakh following the arrest of Patil.