A 49-year-old man was arrested this Thursday in the seaside resort of Mar de Ajó, accused of being "
El Rubio
", a jewelry thief identified from a series of videos of an assault on a local in the Palermo neighborhood, in the who took, in 190 seconds, a million-dollar booty in
money, jewelry and high-end watches
.
The defendant, identified by the police as
Lucas Antonio Radovich (49)
, was arrested by members of the 2nd police station.
of the Partido de la Costa, from Mar de Ajó, after an investigation by a commission of the City Police.
Radovich was arrested this Thursday around 1:45 p.m., when he was riding a motorcycle near his home, in the city of Mar de Ajó.
Judicial sources confirmed that the key to identifying him as the jewelry store thief was the dissemination that the Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor 19, Martín Mainardi, made on March 1 of the videos of an assault committed in the middle of last year in a jewelry store. from the Palermo neighborhood.
El Rubio alleged jewelry thief identified with a video.
(fiscales.gob.ar)
"The information about who it was arrived and field work was done to check that it was indeed this person," said one of the judicial investigators.
Detectives from the Robbery and Theft Division, under the Superintendence of Investigations of the City Police, traveled especially to Mar de Ajó and confirmed that the suspect was the person they were looking for.
When they returned to the city of Buenos Aires to search for the corresponding arrest warrant,
Radovich had moved
, but the troops continued with the intelligence tasks and when they received the information that the wanted person had returned to his home, they contacted his colleagues. from the Mar de Ajó police station, who managed to arrest him yesterday afternoon.
Radovich was going to be transferred in the next few hours to the Federal Capital, where he will be detained, to be investigated at the Palace of Courts by the Criminal and Correctional Judge 41, Edmundo Rabbione, and the prosecutor Mainardi.
The fact that he is accused of and that was filmed with audio, occurred on July 22 of last year in a jewelry store located on Scalabrini Ortiz avenue, a few meters from the Botanical Garden.
According to the video released,
the robbery occurred in 190 seconds
, between 13:18:55 and 13:22:05 that day.
In the first section of the filming, it is observed how "El Rubio" points a gun at a woman who was in the central hall of the jewelry store and takes her to an internal office, where there was another employee and the local safe.
There, he shows them a pistol, loads the gun by mounting the slide, and tells two of the victims, "
I'm not playing, okay?
"
Then, he tells one of the two employees: "Go open the front window, where the TAGs are. Let's see the little key? Are you charging me?" says the thief, referring to the high-end watch brand. range that he intended to take and were exhibited in one of the shop windows of the premises.
At that moment, the third hostage appears, a man to whom "El Rubio" gave the order to
immediately throw himself on the floor
, next to the local safe, where he also located one of the two women.
"You also get down on the floor, okay? Don't bother me, huh? Get down well, lying down, face down," the criminal tells the two hostages who lay down on the floor, while the other employee He gave him the order to use the key
to open the window where the clocks were
.
"I opened the window and come here, come on, come on,
move quickly
!" "El Rubio" tells him.
With the three victims on the floor, the assailant then emptied
the safe
, throwing everything he found - cash, jewelry and envelopes - into a pink bag from the women's clothing store "Las Pepas".
"Who's going to open the door for me later?" asks the thief and one of the women answers: "I'll open it for you."
"El Rubio" left the hostages on the floor of that office and moved with the bag to the central hall, where another camera takes it and in 40 seconds empties one of the showcases of the main window facing the street, where they were , among other objects, the watches of the TAG Heuer brand, of Swiss origin and that in their high range have a value that can average
between 500,000 and 700,000 pesos
, although there are more exclusive models that can cost between
one and a half and three million million pesos
.
When he returns to the cashier's office, the offender's
face is practically complete
, since the chinstrap he was wearing was lowered.
The last thing he says to the victims before escaping is: "Stay there calmly, don't break your crazy balls, I'm not playing. I'm
doing this because my grandmother is sick
."
Now Radovich will be investigated for the crimes of "robbery qualified by the use of a weapon and illegal deprivation of liberty."
With information from Telam
DB
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