A criminal gang which was intensively searched in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, was destroyed in the last few hours after an extensive investigation. The case showed that the organization had well-functioning logistics: They pretended to be police officers to conduct false raids, a method they used to attack a financial firm in Moreno County, a location where You forgot a cell phone.
The robbery occurred on September 29 at the business offices in the Business Center at Kilometer 41 of West Access in Francisco Álvarez. How PROFILE was able to reconstruct 18 raids in various cities of Buenos Aires, where arrests were possible five members of the groupincluding the man appointed as their leader, Ramon Antonio Segovia.
The investigation revealed that the thieves entered the location disguised as Airport Security Police (PSA) officers, feigned an operation and overpowered the manager. Within a few minutes they were finished $80,000 and 4 million pesos in cash and they escaped in one Ford Focus. During the incident there was a confrontation with the leader of the gang was injured by a gunshot.
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The case was left to the public prosecutor Solange CastelliHead of UFI No. 7 of Moreno’s Judicial Department, and Maximiliano Gómez, assistant prosecutor, who noted that the criminal group was also responsible at least seven more facts.
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In this way, the suspects were accused of:illegal association aggravated, Robbery qualified for use of a weapon and heavy concealment for profit.” After the operations that ended with the arrests, sources in the case reported that several items were seized, like weapons and apocryphal PSA references, during Two criminals fled.
A shootout and a forgotten phone
During the command coup that they carried out at the end of September, the members of the gang appeared in the offices of the Commercial Pole in uniforms and clothing of the federal security forces They took the money in less than four minutes. To escape, they got into a van that they had stolen a week earlier, but The vehicle wouldn’t start and they had to improvise. So they asked a customer who had just arrived at the financial institution to get out of his car and leave him with them.
A person who observed the entire situation threw an object at them that he had on hand while the thieves They fled the scene after being shot. To mislead the patrolmen, You stole another vehicle escape. However, when changing vehicles You forgot a cell phone.
Based on the technical expertise, the researchers were able to define this at least four contacts The people inside the device had taken part in the attack. Likewise the restoration of the Voice messages sent to a group of Whatsapp that had been deleted, in which the planning of the attack on the financial company was perfectly explained.
On the other hand, agents checked an address displayed on the phone, where they were able to use a drone to catch a man walking in the area. with crutches: It was Segovia who was still injured afterwards received a bullet in the leg.
“From the analysis of Municipal and private surveillance camerasField tasks, reports, scientific police expertise, Cell phone analysis“, papilla prints, criminal investigations and cyber patrols, the structure, roles and leadership of the organization were determined and the involvement of at least seven men, several of whom had criminal records,” they explained to this medium.
18 raids and 5 arrests
With the information collected, a series of operations were carried out in cities and districts Moreno, General Rodriguez, Escobar (Garín), Admiral Brown (Glew and Longchamps), President Perón, San Vicente, La Matanza and climbing aids. They were confiscated from these houses Firearms, ammunition, cell phones, vests, including wine glasses and the PFA certificate.
In addition to 53-year-old Segovia, they were also arrested Sergio Gaston Fernandez39; Lucas Tomas Plastina29; Ruben Omar Galvan52; And Federico Eduardo Lescano30. The last of them was already detained in Alcaidía No. 1 Lomas de Zamora Robbery of a house from a country from La Plata and “attempted murder” during another attack.
The names of the two fugitives were also determined from the cell phone that was left in the stolen truck: it was you Atilio Félix Miranda and Diego Ezequiel Mendizabal. In addition, the Attorney General’s Office of Moreno also intervened in the case to extend jurisdiction to the other acts with which the defendants are accused, highlighting the work of the Prosecutor’s Office, the Federal Police and the Buenos Aires Police Department.
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