04/26/2021 20:20
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 04/26/2021 8:20 PM
"
We are from Metrogas and we have come to change the meter
."
Words more or less that was the verse that five criminals used this Monday to convince the residents of Villa Lugano to let them enter their homes.
There are
four detainees
and a fifth committed suicide when he was cornered by the City Police.
It happened in Saraza at 5800. According to the complaint received by personnel from the Buenos Aires Neighborhood Police Station 8A, there was a group of criminals who tried to swindle the residents of that area of the City of Buenos Aires into committing
entrances
.
When the City Police patrol car arrived at the scene, residents indicated that the thieves
were posing
as Metrogas
employees
and asking to enter their homes to change the meters, sources from the investigation explained.
With this device, the thieves managed to enter the houses of the residents of that block of Villa Lugano and commit the robberies.
And that's what they were when they were detected by the police: trying to
deceive a
76-year-old
grandmother
of Bolivian nationality.
They posed as Metrogas workers.
Through the roofs
According to sources, several criminals
tried to escape
through the roofs, but two were immediately captured.
While two others fled, a fifth suspect determined to
shoot himself in the head
when he was cornered, the sources detailed.
The thieves who fled, one running and the other in a gray Volkswagen Vento, were
arrested
a few blocks away in the VW.
The VW in which two criminals tried to flee.
Inside the criminals' car, several car keys, cell phones, elements to force doors of houses and
apocryphal patents were seized
.
The 49th National Criminal and Correctional Court intervened in the case, which ordered that the Federal Police work and that the pertinent statements be taken from the interveners.
The weapon that was seized next to the body of the thief who committed suicide.
DD
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