08/18/2020 - 19:06
- Clarín.com
- Police
A gang that carried out entrances ended up falling in the last hours due to an unexpected detail: the thief who had not been locked up connected to Netflix on a stolen TV and that allowed investigators to track his location.
The appliance had been stolen with two accomplices in mid-July, in a driveway in Lomas de Zamora. The other two members of the gang had been arrested during a raid in Temperley a few days ago.
Connecting to Netflix allowed investigators to track down his location in a home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Mataderos, where they arrested the criminal, according to the TN news channel, quoting El Diario del Sur .
The thief, 30, possessed other stolen appliances such as two notebooks and a coffee maker. The three men were charged with "aggravated robbery in the scrutiny mode" and will be questioned in the next few hours.
The Netflix logo on a Smart TV control. Reuters photo
The mayor of Lomas de Zamora, Martín Insaurralde , evaluated days ago that the insecurity in the Buenos Aires suburbs "has a multi-causal component" and said that "the province of Buenos Aires is taking action on the matter together with the Government in a great effort."
"Attributing it only to one cause seems incomplete," said Insaurralde, consulted about the house prisons granted by the Justice from the coronavirus pandemic.
Meanwhile, the justicialista communal chief explained that "in the first part of the pandemic, economic activity and crime had dropped" and pointed out that "now the crime rates from the moment the quarantine began are recovering."
"In Lomas de Zamora there are 40 new patrols and every week for the past 20 days federal Gendarmerie forces have been incorporated," the mayor had said in an interview.
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