Saturday January 14, 2023 | 8:18 p.m.
Last Wednesday, a Paraguayan citizen denounced that while he was refueling at a service station located on Avenida Rademacher de Posadas, from inside his vehicle they took a bag containing the sum of $3,590,000 and a total of 9,000,000 of guaraníes ($225,000 at the official exchange rate).
The Complex Investigations Directorate together with the members of the Robbery and Theft Division of the Police began the investigation and after reviewing the security cameras of the gas station, they placed suspicion on Juan Alfredo M. (32), residing at Chacra 239 from the capital city.
Based on the investigations and follow-up, the troops determined that he was driving a white Renault Fluence and last night, with sufficient evidence, the defendant was arrested at his home, located on 115th avenue and Andresito.
More complaints
But it not all ends there. The same subject was connected to two other criminal acts of identical characteristics committed in the town of Candelaria, one yesterday morning and the other in August of last year, both complainants being travelers.
As for the victim of the day before, he is a native of the city of Rafaela, Santa Fe, and denounced that after lowering merchandise in a store located on Miter avenue and Tarelli street in the old capital, he found that from the passenger compartment of the truck he was driving They had taken two cell phones and his wallet with money and documentation.
The other victim had denounced -on August 18, 2022- that he was in a wholesale supermarket on Avenida Roque González and the access roundabout to Candelaria, loading merchandise in his truck, and when he tried to continue his trip, he detected the missing backpack in the that he had documentation and cash.
criminal connection
On the connection of the detainee with these crimes, police sources reported that “by means of different security cameras located in the vicinity of the businesses in which they were committed, their participation could be determined, first by their particular physical characteristics and also by the Renault Fluence target in which it mobilized”.
After the arrest of the suspect, the car was found in a mechanical workshop in the Néstor Kirchner neighborhood, whose owner assured that the now detainee had left it for a series of repairs. He was kidnapped.
The head of the Investigating Court 3, Fernando Verón, intervened in the case, who ordered the accommodation of the suspect in a police station. The Candelaria police station is in charge of the summary, which will be submitted to the magistrate in a few days.
