The police have arrested five people in connection with the theft of high-end mobile phones in Mumbra and the adjoining areas of Thane district, and recovered from them 91 such gadgets and cough syrup collectively worth Rs 9.15 lakh, a police officer said on Thursday. The arrests were made between May 11 and 16, he said.

“Acting on a tip-off that a resident of Mumbra had stocked several stolen mobiles and cough syrup, the police conducted a raid and seized the goods from his house on May 11. A total of 62 mobile phones and 502 bottles of cough syrup were recovered from him,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone I) Ganesh Gawade said in a press conference.