Stephen Mikkelsen Jensen
07/12/2020 - 16:34
- Clarín.com
- Police
"Hi, I'm Jimi." Jimi Hendrix Castro Riquelme, Chilean, 22 years old, appears before Clarín via WhatsApp from a pavilion at the third police station in Neuquén, where he has been imprisoned since last month. They accuse him of violating his house arrest to steal 4.5 million pesos from a financial company along with the one they point out as the head of the gang, his ex-stepfather Rogelio Alejandro Rojas Cisterna (31).
Castro Riquelme, accused of several assaults on houses and shops in Patagonia, is the only Jimi Hendrix registered in Argentina with the same name as the legendary American guitarist who shone in the 1960s. His mother put it on and he is aware of the meaning, although he does not give it much importance. " I always knew, but there was no room for it, " he says.
The criminal was born in Temuco, in southern Chile. "Chilean I will always be, but I am settled and I plan to raise my family here," he stresses. His dad never took care of him. "I don't know anything about my father. My mother alone helped me get ahead, educated me well. I only met her when I was 20 years old, when I went to visit my grandmother before her death and I almost hit her because
Jimi came to Argentina when he was 11 years old. He followed in the footsteps of his mom and his little sister. The following year he already started stealing. " I come from a family of criminals: mother, brother, uncles, cousins, grandfather, stepfather. Crime runs through my veins, " he says.
Jimi Hendrix Castro Riquelme (22), the Chilean thief who steals in Patagonia.
Police and judicial sources list Clarín as the thief's record. Along with Rojas, his favorite target is the financial, real estate and notary public, through gaps or entrances. " I never put a pipe . It was always scrutinized or neglected. I don't have a single cause, of the seven that accuse me, armed. All are for simple robbery," he says.
On the night of June 9, Castro Riquelme and Rojas Cisterna, along with two unidentified accomplices, climbed the wall of a building on Calle Buenos Aires at 100, about three meters, located in the back, bordering a parking lot. .
Then, with a stick, they forced a window on the first floor, on Rivadavia 86 Street. At least one of them carried a firearm. Once inside the building, they threatened a second-floor accountant and demanded money from her. Since he did not have, they took out his iPhone cell phone.
The BMW van and the gold Rolex that the integrated band Jimi Hendrix Castro Riquelme (22) stole in Neuquén.
Finally they went to office No. 1, also on the second floor, of an office, where they entered by barging the door. A succulent loot awaited them there: several silver envelopes, totaling $ 4,500,000.
At that time, Castro Riquelme was serving house arrest at his home and now the prosecutor Horacio Maitini requested that he be placed in preventive detention for six months together with Rojas Cisterna, which was endorsed by the Guarantees judge, after the investigation by the Crime Department of the Neuquén Police, in charge of the commissioner Paulo Guzmán.
"I did not go. I am paying a supposed fact because Justice allowed itself to be carried by the Police, and not by the law," remarks the assailant. "Now we have a hearing on (Thursday) 16th. I am awaiting release with an ankle brace," he adds, without assuming that he could face a sentence of close to five years when the files are unified.
The BMW van and the gold Rolex that the integrated band Jimi Hendrix Castro Riquelme (22) stole in Neuquén.
Jimi Hendrix built his two-story house in the Toma 7 de Mayo neighborhood, where he lived with his partner, who recently found out that she is pregnant. "The truth is a spicy area, but thank God I am loved in my neighborhood," he says.
Her mother, according to investigators, was a "lighter" in the Neuquén business. " I never took my son out to steal . He studied, he played ball. I never wanted that for my son and because of life circumstances I came back to Chile and he made his life," she tells this newspaper in a message on Facebook, angered by a note that was actually published this Saturday in the newspaper La Mañana , in Neuquén.
Days before, when Clarín asked him about his son's medical record, he stated: "Did you know that the police tortured him, beat him, left his whole body with bruises, put a bag on him to leave him breathless? did you publish? "
" See you in the bad. Where the cowards are not ," is one of the messages Jimi Hendrix has shared on his Facebook, to which he usually uploads photos with his partner.
-Why do you steal? Can't you do something else? To work? Now you are going to be a father.
-Because I'm used to giving myself a good life. I think about changing. But first I want to have something where I am my boss.
"And you are not afraid of being killed?"
-Yes. My brother-in-law, in Chile, was killed by the police in a robbery. But it is what I do.
Another of the robberies attributed to Jimi Hendrix occurred on Wednesday, May 20. Again together with Rojas Cisterna. It was at the real estate Makrich y Asociados, in Roca at 200. There they violated the safe and took $ 150 thousand, in addition to a computer. Security cameras incriminated the thieves.
Just a week later, on Wednesday the 27th, the two of them broke into a woman's house, after the victim went shopping. With accurate data, two 44-inch and 55-inch televisions and a gold Rolex watch were stolen, among other items they loaded into the victim's brand-new $ 5 million BMW van to escape. On Friday the 29th, while a storm was raging, the accomplices of the crime were arrested.
Castro Riquelme and Rojas Cisterna, also accused of violating the quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, were then benefited from house arrest for four months. But on June 9 they would repeat the millionaire blow to the financial company. There they would make a key mistake : they took out the video surveillance center that recorded the robbery, but they forgot it on the spot, along with a Jimi Hendrix cell phone.
"Do not take the note, please. You hurt me," Jimi 's partner pleaded this Saturday, a criminal who harms himself by his way of life, always linked to crime.
EMJ
