salem the kannankurichi police arrested a 20yearold youth in the city on saturday evening for stealing four dobermann dogs police also rescued the dogs and handed them over to the respective owners the youth is identified as shanmuga ponvel of rajaganapathi nagar at johnsonpet a farm worker police received the first complaint on may 14 from sabarish durai 32 of muniappan koil street of kondappanaickenpatty that his two dobermann dogs were stolen the previous night again on may 20 police received two complaints from selvaraj 62 of abirami garden and prasanna kumar 32 of kamatchi nagar in chinna tirupathi that their dobermann dogs were stolen police questioned local pet shops and came to know that shanmuga ponvel had made queries about dobermann dogs in the areasubsequently police detained shanmuga and questioned him he confessed to his crimes the dogs were kept in a farm at kamalapuram where shanmuga was working the youth did not intend to sell the dogs and wanted to rear them himself a police officer said shanmuga was arrested and lodged at the salem central prison in judicial custody