National Police agents have arrested a 24-year-old man, with 13 police records, as the alleged perpetrator of a burglary in several penthouses in Arrecife. He was arrested thanks to citizen collaboration. He accessed the building by forcing the door of the entrance. The tools he intended to take were returned to their rightful owner.
The events unfolded after a call to the telephone 091, in which the presence of a person "foreign to the property" on the building's staircase was reported. The police officers who went to the scene interviewed the person who had made the call, who informed them that moments before, when he was sleeping, he heard noises in the part of the staircase that gives access to the penthouse area of the building. "When he went down to the street, he was able to observe a suitcase and different tools next to the building's entrance," the Police reports.
At the same time, when the agents inspected the property, they found "various tools on the landing accessing the penthouses, as well as the door of one of them open."
He "hung" from one penthouse to another building to escape
While the police were interviewing this person, they observed how a man "hung from one of the penthouses to an adjacent building, then threw himself into the street and fled." He was finally "intercepted" in the vicinity and arrested as the alleged perpetrator of a burglary.
Subsequent police investigations managed to determine the ownership of the tools found on the public road and on the staircase landing, which belonged to the tenant of one of the penthouses they accessed, and to whom they were returned. Once the corresponding police report was prepared, the detainee was placed at the disposal of the competent Judicial Authority.
