Las Security cameras of the city were clave to detect the person responsible for having set a garbage container In the neighborhood of San Cristóbal with serious consequences for two neighbors: the fire spread and caused the total destruction of one car and damage to another. The defendant of the incident is known by the City Police. They tell him “Polvorita” And he has several income to police stations since 2019, mostly for robo.
As seen in the security cameras of the Urban Monitoring Center (CMU), The suspect, 34 years oldhe left some cartons next to the container and moved away from the place observing the result of his maneuver.
Immediately, the flames touched the garbage bowl and then take two cars that were parked in that same block of the San Juan Avenue at 3,200.
The CMU operators also observed how the suspect, nicknamed “Polvorita”he retired from the place towards a subway station close to the Line E..
Given this, at the scene of the incident, agents of the neighborhood police station 3b and firefighters of the city were displaced, which extinguished the flames.
Thanks to that video record, the author of the fire and the damage was identified and subsequently, arrested By city police personnel.
When checking the “dusty” data in the system, the police verified that the detainee had at least 12 income at several Buenos Aires police stationsfor repeated robberies, injuries and possession of narcotics, among others, since 2019.
- 17/11/2024 Robo
- 17/03/2024 Robo
- 01/31/2024 Enter without entry
- 03/01/2023 Establish capture
- 01/03/2023 Robo
- 30/11/2021 Robo
- 10/24/2021 Mild lesions
- 09/02/2020 Robbery attempt
- 03/18/2020 Narcotics possession
- 02/20/2020 Narcotics possession
- 05/18/2019 Autopartes robbery
- 01/02/2019 Robo
After being arrested, “Polvorita” was arrested at the disposal of the prosecution of the Buenos Aires shift for the crimes of fire and damage.
In the early hours of April 6, Eight cars and a motorcycle were set on fire on Matheu street at 100, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Balvanerain front of the headquarters of the Justicialist Party (PJ).
The flames affected a Chevrolet Tracker, a Fiat Punto, a Fiat Fiorino, a Chevrolet Prisma, a Jeep Compass, a Ford Focus, a Volkswagen Gol, and a motorcycle that was tied with a chain to a tree.
Most of the damages were concentrated in specific areas of each vehicle, such as capeswhich reinforces the hypothesis that someone deliberated fire one by one. According to the testimonies, traces of a possible accelerating liquid were found in the place.
In some cases, such as that of Chevrolet Prisma, they were vehicles that had gas equipmentwhich generated an even more risky situation.
Luckily, no injured were recorded, although The fire reached the facade of a buildingwhose walls were impregnated with soot.
On the other hand, on January 25, the city’s firefightening staff worked during the early morning to control the flames of three cars that dawned fire In the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Cristóbal.
Fire destroyed the three cars They were parked on the Oruro passage to 1400, almost at the corner of Avenida Pavón and less than 200 meters of the 25 de Mayo Highway.
The affected vehicles were a Peugeot 206, a Ford Focus y Un Volkswagen New Beetle.
