The operative group number 5 of the Local Police of Arrecife arrested last Friday the third alleged robber of a jewelry store in the center of Arrecife, which took place on the 9th. Two days before, the Citizen Security and Intervention Unit (U.S.C.I.), belonging to the Local Police, arrested two other young men as alleged perpetrators of this robbery.
The head of the Local Police of Arrecife, José Antonio Lasso, explained on Radio Lanzarote that after the robbery, the Judicial Police of the National Police Corps informed the municipal agents of "the facts and the alleged perpetrators." "We had the opportunity to see photographs and videos from the security cameras" of the jewelry store, he indicated.
The Citizen Intervention Unit was trying to locate the perpetrators of this act last Wednesday. Thus, they were carrying out "different identifications among several groups of young people", until they "located two of them, who recognized them from the videos." The first two detainees are 27 and 18 years old and are from Ecuador.
Subsequently, on Friday, another police unit, the operative group number 5, saw the third suspect, identified him and proceeded to arrest him, according to Lasso. Apparently, during the robbery, the owner of the jewelry store confronted the alleged thieves and managed to take "the hood off one of them". The other two also did not "control the cameras" so they "could be identified".
"It is always advisable not to confront"
Lasso wanted to recommend to the population that "the fact that" some thieves "can take away" "the loot", "in no way justifies that one can risk physical integrity and confront the criminals, who sometimes will not hesitate to turn a robbery into a robbery with injuries or something worse." "It is always advisable not to confront", he advised.
The "ideal", according to Lasso, is that this type of establishment has security measures, such as those available at the robbed jewelry store. "They activated the silent alarm, which has a video circuit. These measures have led to the arrest of the perpetrators", the councilman pointed out.
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