Tuesday April 18, 2023 | 6:00 a.m.
In less than 20 seconds, using a bar that was used to force the main access door to the property, three criminals with their faces covered with hoods entered the apartment of a young 25-year-old merchant from the provincial capital, from where According to the latter in his formal complaint to the police authorities, they took a succulent booty that exceeds 100,000,000 pesos in cash. The amount is made up of pesos, dollars and reais.
Part of the millionaire theft was recorded by different security cameras in the area and at this time the Misiones Police deploy numerous operations to locate the criminals.
Based on the data that this morning newspaper was able to collect with spokespersons involved in the investigation, it was learned that the crime was denounced during the early hours of last Saturday by Juan Andrés M. (25), who would be dedicated to the sale of cell phones.
As the boy recounted to the investigators, just a handful of minutes into Saturday, he received an alert on his cell phone indicating that the door of his apartment located on Soria Street in farm 94 had been violated.
The crime occurred on Soria street, a few meters from López y Planes avenue.
The victim specified that from the security device he warned that unknown persons had entered his apartment after forcing the door with a bar. This immediately forced him to leave the property of a well-known 5-a-side soccer field complex on Santa Catalina Avenue where he was with his friends.
Upon arrival, he noticed that the criminals had escaped from his house with a safe that he had in his room and that according to spokesmen was not embedded in the wall.
In turn, he denounced that 240,000 US dollars, 8,000,000 pesos and 3,000 reais were kept in cash inside it. He adds that at the current exchange rate it is around 106,000,000 Argentine pesos.
movements captured
While chewing the bad drink that he had to live with the visit of foreign friends, the merchant reviewed the images from a security camera located in the living room of his apartment and found that three were responsible for the theft.
Also that they acted with their faces covered with chinstraps, caps and with the hoods of divers-type coats. They were only 17 seconds inside the house.
In the film record it was possible to observe that two of the thieves headed towards the room where the safe was, while the remaining thieves remained guarding the main door. And from there, the latter with a “Give it, give it to close the door”, urged his companions to quickly leave the place before they could be noticed by other occupants of the building.
From the survey of that camera, the investigators believe that the thieves knew exactly where to find the money. And they do not rule out that before hiding their faces they have waited for the right moment to pose as visitors to a tenant so that another neighbor would open the door. In this way they could have entered the apartment complex without arousing suspicion.
On the other hand, in addition to the images that the complainant himself provided to the Misiones Police Cybercrime Division, a survey of cameras from other houses on the block was also made from the provincial force and in several of them the moment was also noted. in which the three involved run down Calle Soria with the safe.
For this investigation, the Investigations Division of the Regional Unit I carried out different investigative tasks, although until the closing of this edition, no news had been released from those involved.
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According to the security camera of the young complainant’s apartment, it took the thieves just 17 seconds to enter and leave with the million-dollar loot.
