SPAUBEEK/GELEEN - A 22-year-old man from Schinnen is in custody in connection with the investigation into the Feb. 5 incident in which a concrete block was thrown from an overpass onto the A76 near Spaubeek. The piece of concrete hit a car, whose 18-year-old driver narrowly avoided crashing, according to police.

The man from Schinnen was arrested Sunday during the day on the Europalaan in Geleen for allegedly having a stolen concrete block in his car. Police would not yet indicate why any involvement of the 22-year-old in the Feb. 5 incident at around 4:40 a.m. is being so vigorously investigated. "But not everyone who steals a block of concrete is detained for that long," a police spokesperson responded. "If there is any possible link to the serious incident on the A76 near Spaubeek, that obviously transcends the simple capital crime."

Last week, police suggested that the piece of concrete that was thrown off the viaduct and landed on the car of an 18-year-old man from Vlaardingen may have been stolen from a garden off Parallelweg in Spaubeek, near the viaduct where the incident occurred. A concrete block had disappeared there. In this regard, police did not want to say yesterday whether the concrete block in the suspect's car resembles the rock that was thrown from the viaduct over a week ago, or whether it would have been stolen from the garden in question. How police tracked down the suspect in the "concrete theft," the spokesman would not divulge. No further explanation is forthcoming either. All that is clear is that the suspect is in custody for the time being. "He is being questioned extensively," a police spokesman informed.