“Coronamo”: the celebration of the federal police who stole 100 thousand pesos armed and fled in a twin car

“coronamohe boasted Walter Leonel Garbino (24) in an image he posted to his Instagram Stories. The photo, which he accessed GlobeLiveMedia, shows the dashboard of the vehicle he was driving with several wads of cash. In all: hundred thousand pesos. They had been stolen minutes earlier at gunpoint from a man walking by the intersection of General José Gervasio Artigas and Pantaleón Rivarola in the Buenos Aires neighborhood Agronomy. The offender is a member of Argentinian Federal Police.

It all started on Monday, after 11:25 p.m. On board a gray Volkswagen Fox, the policeman and his accomplice, identified by the sources consulted by this media as Jonathan Fabian Penayo (22), intercepted a 30-year-old man about 40 blocks from his home. From what the investigators were able to reconstruct, the victim had ten bundles of 10 thousand pesos who I planned to go with compare a laptop.

After pointing a gun at him Bersa Thunder caliber 9mmGarbino and Penayo they took the victim’s money and fled in the VW. At that time, the policeman – who was driving the car – shared a photo of the loot on his social networks. “Coronamo”, he wrote without the final “s”, as a celebration. A few minutes later, the two criminals were intercepted by the police. Local police at the intersection of General Paz and Lezcano avenues, main to Riachuelo.

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Police sources consulted by GlobeLiveMedia They said personnel from the Buenos Aires Force’s Digital Ring Division had identified the vehicle: a twin car that had an active abduction request since 2021 in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Esteban Echeverría, in a matter that is under investigation as aggravated theft.

After consummating the arrest of the thieves, the city police officers searched the Volkswagen Fox and found the one hundred thousand pesos in casha jacket with PFA inscription, a Bersa Thunder 9mm with 18 rounds, a PFA badge holder, two cell phones and a bag of nylon black color with 255 grams of marijuana.

To their surprise, they also confirmed that one of the two men traveling in the vehicle was a member of the Argentine Federal Police. “I am a member of the Canes Division of the PFA Fire Departmentsaid Garbino.

Inside the vehicle, officers also found a vehicle identification card in CG’s name.

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The case, which is being investigated for “armed robbery and unlawful deprivation of liberty”, has been assigned to the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor No. 29, by Lucio Herrera, secretary to Hernán De Lazzari.

The capture of the suspects was possible thanks to the digital ringa state-of-the-art control system that allows the municipal police to identify vehicles banned from circulation, covering the 74 entrances and exits of the federal capital, along General Paz Avenue, the bridges over the Riachuelo and the main traffic arteries.

On average, more than 3 million daily domains are detected by Digital Ring. Without going any further, over the past year it has allowed the kidnapping of 21% more motorcycles and cars (they have gone from 293 to 356) and the arrest of 19% more suspects -there are had an increase of 396 to 474-, compared to 2021.

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