He had insisted on paying for his soda before leaving the scene of his crime: a young Spaniard was arrested after robbing a petrol station in southern Spain with an accomplice, the police announced on Friday 5 January.
The young man, who is still a minor, is accused of attacking this petrol station near Malaga, in Andalusia, on the evening of 2 January, with an imitation handgun. "After threatening the employees, he took the money from the cash register, about 2000,<> euros," the police said in a statement.
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Curiously, he decided to pay for the soda he had grabbed from a display before fleeing," she adds. The young man and his accomplice, accused of lending him the fake gun and providing him with information during the robbery, were identified and arrested after only 48 hours of investigation, the statement said.
While in police custody, one of the two youths "spontaneously told the police (...) that he intended to buy a scooter with the stolen money," police said.