A man who used to steal electric motorcycles in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus He was arrested by the police of that territory and brought to justice, according to local media.
Without disclosing your identity, a note of the newspaper Escambray indicates that he is a 38-year-old citizen, a native of the neighboring province of Ciego de Ávila, and already convicted of previous crimes, who took advantage of the trust and lack of vigilance of his owners to commit the robberies.
Most of these events occurred in the surroundings of the Serafín Sánchez park, in the city of Sancti Spíritus, where the criminal dressed in a way that allowed him to avoid being identified by the surveillance cameras, studied his possible victims, details the publication.
Other points in the Sancti Spiritus city, such as the parking lots of the Camilo Cienfuegos Provincial General Hospital and several city streets, were also chosen by the thief to commit their robberies in broad daylight.
Sometimes your modus operandi It consisted of following the owner of the electric motorcycle —once he had parked— to make sure he was busy in a queue or at the ATM. Then he would run back, force the rudder and push her to a secluded spot, where he would then start her up by activating the electrical circuits.
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The media reports that on June 24, after having stolen an electric motorcycle on the ground floor of the Doce Plantas building, and when he was traveling along the Central Highway, he abandoned the stolen motorcycle and fled when a police patrol policeman local gave him orders to stop.
“As a result of the criminalistic work on-siteit was possible to remove a skin print on the motorcycle that turned out to correspond to a citizen residing in the province of Ciego de Ávila, in response to which he was arrested,” the report states, according to which after being arrested “he admitted being the author of the acts, all denounced, and provided details of his execution that coincided with the elements collected in the investigation.”
In addition, “with the participation of the Prosecutor’s Office and in accordance with the procedural guarantees established in the Constitution of the Republic and in the Criminal Procedure Law (Law No. 143/2021), said citizen voluntarily agreed to locate and reconstruct the facts and At this time, the precautionary measure of provisional prison was imposed on him,” adds the note from Escambray.
The detainee acknowledged that the stolen motorcycles were transferred to the neighboring province of Ciego de Avila, where another 35-year-old man, also arrested as a result of the investigation, was selling them on the black market.
According to the source, so far, of the dozen electric motorcycles stolen, the police have been able to recover only two, while the investigative and instruction process continues with the aim of recovering all the stolen vehicles.
