“They didn’t touch anything in the living room, they went straight to the bedrooms. They completely searched mine: they threw everything out of my closet, they emptied everything, everything was blown up, but they found nothing. They continued to the other room and they did find in my parents’ room: They stole money, jewelry and things like that. Beyond the gold, those were memories we had of my grandparents who passed away. It’s more than anything sentimental, it’s something that hurts because it can’t be recovered.”he added.
In addition, he commented that “when the criminals were leaving, they saw my son’s Play and took it along with two joysticks. At 10:01, 10:02 they left my house, it didn’t take long”. With the recording of the cameras, he mentioned that the Police are working to identify the perpetrators of the incident.
How was the robbery
The victim explained that, due to the type of robbery, They believe that the criminals had already “studied their movements”. “There are three guys who entered. My parents left, They hit their hands once, twice and the third timesince no one attended, They slammed the entrance gate and the door”, he detailed.
At the same time, he regretted that “just that day my parents had not set the alarm because the big dog was left inside,” who helped scare away the thieves with her barking.
“The dog is very bad with men and it looks like they have hit her, because the guys came in the same. Thank God they didn’t take any of my dogs,” he highlighted.
Likewise, he pointed out: “I think that if the dog had not stopped barking at any time, the guys would continue. I think they were very alarmed that the dog was barking so much.”.
Insecurity and string of robberies in the neighborhood
The neighbor remarked that in the neighborhood there are worried about constant thefts and that, as a result of the assaults, home security systems are being reinforced.
“We neighbors are super attentive and worried because We already think that it is someone who is giving us, which is between us,” he explained. In that sense, she insisted that the criminals had “studied the movements of the house” and that it is “the same modality and the same people”.
“It’s like we are very aware that they do touch hands, that they respond immediately, and that my son is not left alone. It created tremendous fear in us.”, he commented.
For this reason, he indicated that the neighbors are coming together to demand a greater police presence in the sector, which also has educational establishments such as School 343 and CPEM 47 in its vicinity.
“We want to ask for more police presence, more security and cameras “Let them help so they can find these people who are harming all the families on the block who have already suffered robberies,” he concluded.
Lupe appeared: the dog that had been stolen
Finally, after an intense search, Lupe appeared, the dog that had been stolen this Saturday at noon in the Huiliches neighborhood when thieves broke in and took other belongings as well. The dog was found a few blocks from the house, and as her owner updated LMNeuquén, a woman saw her and did not hesitate to pick her up since she had read in the news about the search for her.
The robbery occurred between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. this Saturday, just when Luciana (the owner) and her partner went to work. “We left at the same time as one of the neighbors and at 1:30 p.m. another neighbor called and told my partner that they had entered our house, if we could go,” she said.
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It is a duplex on the street Ortega y Gasset in which they have been renting for 3 months, and according to Luciana, they are just adapting and that “in fact we don’t have much furniture or anything.”
“They came in, they checked, For me it is people who know the house for the places where they checked punctually, also for how they cut the door, for how they entered,” he said.
In addition to the dog, They stole all their documentation since he had left his wallet in the house with his driver’s license, document and credit card. All documents are in the name of Luciana Oviedo Castro.
A colorful fact that he told is that they took even some lollipops. “They liked candy, because we had a giant jar of lollipops, they all took it,” she said.
Other robberies in the neighborhood
With the robbery of the duplex, there are already three robberies on Ortega y Gasset Street, in the Huiliches neighborhood, which has worried neighbors who have lived there for years.
Luciana also said that the neighbor next door to her house, on a Sunday night, two weeks ago, had a high-end motorcycle stolen and that the striking thing is that They cut the gate in the same places that they cut the one to his house.
A few months ago, the robberies of teenagers at the exit of Primary School 343 and CPEM 47 had already raised the alarm among the neighbors and the neighborhood commission.
In the case of CPEM 47, a Teen He was threatened and assaulted by a criminal who forced him to hand over his cell phone on the sidewalk when he was leaving class.
“A boy on a bicycle approaches him and says: ‘Give me your cell phone or I’ll shoot you‘. My son ran away and this boy followed him on his bike and repeated the same thing to him again. Which is really serious because you don’t know if he has a weapon or not,” commented Daniel, father of the assaulted teenager.
In the case of School 343, at the intersection of Rufino Ortega and Ortega y Gasset, a few blocks from CPEM 47, street cameras captured how two young people on a bicycle They approached two girls who were taking a photo at gunpoint to steal their belongings.
