Montevideo police arrested a new member of the group known as the “perfume band”who this sunday he stole 12 perfumes together with another person of a total value close to $50 thousand from a downtown pharmacy, sources from the capital’s Police Headquarters confirmed to The Observer.
On Sunday afternoon, the detainee and his partner they entered a pharmacy with their faces covered located in the streets Arenal Grande and July 18, They broke the window to take the perfumesand then they left in a gray Suzuki van with no license plateaccording to a local worker who reported the facts to the police.
The authorities toured the area near Juan Francisco Martínez and Pernas streets in the neighborhood Platense, where they located perfume gang headquarters. There they spotted a gray van with no license plate of the same brand that the employee of the stolen pharmacy reported.
As highlighted by the Montevideo Headquarters, they began to monitor the area until they saw the vehicle leave, at which time They tried to intercept him by calling out, but the car fled. Minutes later the police caught the truck at the corner of Agaces and Himalayas.
Driver, a 39-year-old man with a criminal record, He was arrested. In addition, it was seized a closed perfumeone of the 12 that the members had stolen from the pharmacy that Sunday, and the truck, which was reported stolen.
This Wednesday the person involved was accused of a crime of “reception”with “total house arrest” and anklet tracking until August 2023, detailed sources from the Headquarters.
In mid-February the Montevideo police had reported on the perfume band dropafter three people were convicted and five accused for him theft of 17 stores of the Farmashop chain.
On that occasion, the police officers carried out five raids in different places in Montevideo and another one in Lagomar (Canelones), where They seized 30 perfumes in total.in addition to many other “damaged”.
