An alleged thief who stole a phone from inside a home was captured by neighbors and handed over to the police on Monday night in the El Tívoli neighborhood, in Santiago de Cuba.
A video released by journalist Yosmany Mayeta shows the moment when the subject from the ground denied being a thief and said that the phone had been sold to him for 200 pesos.
The individual would have been captured on Santa Rita Street, between Barracones and Santiago Alley, in the heart of the city.
A later text He identified the individual as Osiri Aguirre Silva and offered details of what happened based on witness testimony.
A woman named “Roxana” explained to the aforementioned source that Her husband was outside the house talking with a relative when the man entered the house suddenly.
“My sister tells him about a strange man who entered and when he goes, the man was already leaving quickly and she manages to capture him and, between one thing and another, she takes the phone that my husband had in his pocket,” the woman said.
Although the thief managed to escape, they were able to catch him thanks to the collaboration of the neighbors, who fell behind him.
The private home where the thief went to rob is located in Santiago Alley, between Santa Rita and San Carlos, also in the Tivoli neighborhood, very close to where he ended up being arrested.
“After my question as to whether the phone had been sold to her for 200 pesos in national currency, as the thief said in the video, Roxana responded: ‘He stole it. My phone is an iPhone XS Max, which costs 60 to 65 thousand pesos.”concluded the source.
The family who was the victim of the robbery filed a complaint and say they do not plan to withdraw it. They also ask that the person be taken back to prison, since they were informed that the subject is a repeat offender in this type of criminal acts.
At the moment, the alleged thief remains detained in the Second Unit of the Santiago de Cuba Police, known as “El Palacete.”
Until the closing of this note, no other details of the incident have emerged, which adds to the growing list of events in which neighbors throughout the country capture all types of thieves.
In a singular event that occurred at the end of April An alleged thief, knife in hand, was captured by neighbors in the city of Holguín and the man defended himself by arguing: “I was peeing, buddy.”
“Yes, up there pissing, eh? I caught you,” a neighbor was heard responding in that case, since apparently the man had been discovered on a roof at the time he was stealing clothes that were hanging.
