Armed men beat a woman to rob her of a millionaire sum in La Mesa; one of the thieves had a house as a prison

Four men were captured by the National Police last Wednesday, June 19, when they committed a freight in the municipality of La Mesa, in Cundinamarca. In fact, they attacked their victim and intimidated her with a firearm to try to steal a million-dollar sum of money from her.

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In a new incident of insecurity recorded in the country, a woman was a victim of criminals when he was leaving a bank from which he had just withdrawn eight million pesos. Armed men approached him, pointed a firearm at him and tried to take away the briefcase in which he was carrying the cash.

However, the victim, who was in the company of another woman, tried to prevent them from taking the backpack. His companion pounced on the thief and their screams alerted the community..

Finally, the subjects fled on two motorcycles, with the luck that a few meters later they collided with another vehicle. After the traffic accident, The authorities managed to capture the criminals.

Six cell phones are seized

“In this procedure, a vehicle and a motorcycle are immobilized and six cell phones are seized,” said Colonel Andrés Serna, commander of the Cundinamarca Police.

The incident was recorded on security cameras in the sector. The videos, obtained by Citynewsgive an account of the brutality of the criminals and the actions of the victims who managed to thwart the theft.

Furthermore, the recordings are a key piece in the investigation, since they show when the criminals mark the woman from the moment she is at the financial institution and then approach her.

Criminals had criminal records

Colonel Serna also indicated that after the capture of the four involved, a background check was carried out, thus finding that two of them had a record of crimes committed in the country’s capital.

“It was established that one of these people was being required by the judicial authority for the crime of homicide in the city of Bogotá, for events that occurred in January 2023, in the town of Ciudad Bolívar“said the commander.

Besides, Another of those involved was under house arrest in the city of Bogotá.

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