A man wanted to steal the collection of a Cutcsa bus in the neighborhood deletebut was stopped by a police officer who was traveling as a passenger of the car. The person involved had been investigated for two months by the authorities and He was accused of 14 robberies of different busesconfirmed the Montevideo Police Headquarters to The Observer.
This Saturday the man, from 30 years and with five background penalties, got on the bus 158 bound for the Customs on the streets Justo Montes Pareja and Víctor Escardo y Anayaand threatened with a kitchen knife to the driver for steal the take of transport.
However, inside the vehicle a police officer was present of the Montevideo Police Response Units (URPM), who when he saw the situation gave the “stop voice” identifying himself as a policeman.
When the aggressor sees the cash he wanted to escape from the bus, but was intercepted by the officialthat seized the knife and the $950 that he had stolen from the collection.
The official requested police assistance, which arrived to take the robber into custody. As reported by the Montevideo Headquarters, The man had been under investigation for two months for “various robberies of buses” that he committed in rail tipneighborhood where he lives.
The man he always robbed the buses with bladed weaponsand its objectives they were almost always Cutcsa company vehicles.
This Sunday the court charged the detainee with 60 days of pretrial detention by “14 aggravated crimes of robbery”, one of them in the degree of “attempt”reported the capital headquarters.
