In three minutes, the criminals had what they wanted: they entered Portones Shopping, went directly to the jewelry store they had planned, stole the collection money and several watches. They escaped and nothing was heard from them. until this tuesday.
The assault occurred on Wednesday October 19. Until 5:24 p.m. that day, the trading day was going on as normal. A minute later, three men entered with their faces covered, armed, and with the intention of assaulting GR Joyeros, which is located at store 138, near one of the doors of the mall.
The criminals were there on Wednesday morning “marking” the placeaccording to information to which he accessed The Observer. The investigators observed that at 10:20 a.m. a white FAW brand vehicle prowled the place, next to the Renault that would later be used. The first was driven by a man, and the second was occupied by three people, although no one imagined the intentions of those four people.
Around 5:25 p.m., the criminals parked another vehicle, a dark Renault car, in front of the door that was a few meters from the jewelry store. They entered in a certain hurry, one of them took the manager of the premises by the neck while another took charge of break with a hammer shop window and thus have access to jewelry and watches valued at thousands of dollars.
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They took the collection and several watches that they put inside bags. Meanwhile, the woman was unharmed; there were no injuries.
they escaped 17:27as seen in the video surveillance cameras from the mall. Minutes later, the police were informed that a driver was kidnapped with threats of a firearm in the streets of Verona and Taormina. By both accounts, the police had at that time sufficient indications that it could be the same gang.
The Renault appeared abandoned: inside there were several bloodstains and one of the car’s wheels was punctured. Bloodstains were also found on the white FAW – required for theft and found parked. That second vehicle was parked in Taormina and Villa de Masnou, where the criminals were after escaping. But when they needed it, it didn’t turn on, so they drive another two blocks in the Renault and steal the third vehicle, a Kia van.
The Renault was also reported stolen, police sources then reported to The Observer. It was after a robbery of a driver on October 15. The FAW was stolen on October 2, according to police information.
Crash and arrest, with one failed attempt
A few days after the assault, the Scientific Police informed the police and the prosecutor’s office about the identification of one of them, who in turn was arrested this Tuesday after evading a police control in the neighborhood North Falkland. He is a 26-year-old who has a criminal record for robbery, the last one sentenced in 2019.
The Justice issued an arrest warrant on October 24, five days after the assault.
This Tuesday around 11:40 a.m. evaded a police control and a persecution began through the Malvín Norte neighborhood, from Gallinal and Godoy, to Espuelitas and Rufino Domínguez. In Gallinal and Pitágoras he collided with another vehicle and hit the wall of a house, for which two other people he was traveling with escaped. It is unknown if they were the same ones who participated in the assault that October 19.
Meanwhile, he was arrested because tried to open the suitcase of the red Citroën with no number plate that he was driving, without success. There the police seized un AR15 submachine gun (with factory number erased), two 9-millimeter pistols, a cell phone signal jammerchargers, among other objects that were seized.
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Among what was seized this Tuesday there is a submachine gun and two pistols
One of the pistols, which are 9 millimeters, was reported stolen from a police officer on December 4, 2014. In addition, the Citroën was also reported stolen from October 25, six days after the assault on the shopping jewelry store.
Defendant with pretrial detention
At the request of the Flagrancia prosecutor Pablo Rivas, Judge Gonzalo Arsuaga accused him of an aggravated crime of robbery as co-perpetrator with three crimes of reception and a crime of carrying and possession of firearms as perpetrator.
