Global Courant
The City Police arrested a gang of five criminals after a chase through the Palermo neighborhood, thanks to an early warning that was triggered by an old complaint that the car they were driving was being dragged.
The arrest occurred on Thursday afternoon, when members of the 14 C Neighborhood Police Station were alerted to the presence of a vehicle, a white Peugeot 308 that was driving through the Puerto Madero area towards downtown. It was thanks to the digital ring system, which detected the car.
The car had an early warning after having participated in a robbery on June 3, where criminals stole a backpack with 10,000 dollars on public roads, in Scalabrini Ortiz at 1400.
Faced with this situation, the City Police officers moved to Santa Fe and Uriarte, in Palermo. “The car was loitering in the area suspiciously with four people on board,” police sources explained.
When the suspects became aware of the police presence, they fled. They also had the support of four motorcycles that broke into the area and worked in a coordinated manner.
The car was finally intercepted at 2400 Thames Street, where the arrest of its four passengers between the ages of 42 and 46 was achieved. One of them also had a current conviction.
Among the belongings carried by the thieves, the agents found a hard vidia point (commonly used to break vehicle windows), hammers, 123,000 pesos, two replica firearms and 5 cell phones, among other items.
Finally, although the motorcycles escaped in different directions, one of them was arrested in Warnes at 200. It was a Honda Falcon and was driven by a 45-year-old man, who officiated in support of the defendants during the attempt to flight.
The Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor No. 22, in charge of Dr. Cubría, intervened in the case, which before the Sole Secretary of Dr. Ballesteros, ordered the arrest of the five involved for the crime of qualified robbery and bribery.
“This is a great job by the City Police. We are taking criminals off the streets,” said Justice and Security Minister Eugenio Burzaco.
Osvaldo Bazán experienced a violent episode of insecurity on top of a remís: “Luckily, it was only the robbery”
The TN signal journalist Osvaldo Bazán was the victim of a robbery this Wednesday night when leaving the channel, when a criminal broke the glass of one of the windows of the remís that took him home and took his cell phone.
“I was coming in the bus in Anchorena when I got to Perón, it stopped at the traffic light. Someone broke the window glass and took my cell phone,” he said from his Twitter account.
The episode of insecurity that the writer also suffered occurred in the vicinity of the Once station in the City of Buenos Aires. The attack involved the use of a blunt instrument by the thief.
“He almost didn’t hit me with that bar in the face, the windows exploded. Luckily, it was only the robbery,” said the journalist through his social networks and once at home, since he no longer had his mobile.
“Luckily, it was only the robbery,” he reflected before calming the concern of his followers, family and friends who, last night, were trying to obtain more information when he did not have his cell phone or the WhatsApp instant messenger.
In “One more turn”, the program that has him as a columnist in TN, Bazán recounted the incident. “At the exit of the tunnel on Anchorena street, which passes under the tracks, upon reaching Perón street, there was a red traffic light. The taxi driver parked… He stopped, rather, at the traffic light and I was going sitting in the back, in the middle of the seat with the cell phone in hand,” he narrated.
“Then,” he added, “suddenly, with a bar someone broke the window, which practically exploded into a thousand pieces in my face. That man who broke the window went through it, took my cell phone and ran out.”
Before the attention of his colleagues, he maintained that it was “a very ugly moment” and that he later learned that this type of robbery “are quite common” in that area of Buenos Aires “which is very unprotected, behind the Once station it would be… between the station and the Abasto area,” he said.
