The fact happened between Tacna and Grau avenues in downtown Piura. PNP is investigating the case.

piura becomes one of the cities”attractivefor contract killers and is that so far this year there have been several cases that have alerted the authorities of this city in northern Peru.

Last weekend, the precise moment was recorded when four criminals tried to rob a businessman of his money, who moments before had withdrawn 50,000 soles from a bank branch.

This fact was recorded in the avenue Tacna and Grau, in the city center, while the victim was driving his truck with his son. After a few minutes out of the bank branch, he was intercepted by four criminals who blocked his way with their linear motorcycles.

The thugs immediately get down and pointing directly at them opens the truck door. However, the thieves did not achieve their goal, as they did not expect the businessman and his son to draw their guns and defend themselves against the attempted robbery.

After a flurry of bullets, the criminals fled without the riot and from what can be recorded in the CCTV footage, one of them manages to be filmed at shoulder height.

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According to police sources, they confirmed to Piura media that the businessman and his son were inside a bank branch to withdraw a large sum of money. However, they started to feel something suspicious when a young man started looking at them in a different way.

Despite this, he withdrew from the scene and boarded his Mitsubishi truck registered P4L-719 driven by his son with the initials JHGT (35). As soon as the truck stops in front of a relative’s house, the thugs begin to carry out “their operation”.

The Divincri Robbery Division of the Peruvian National Police is in charge of the investigations of this case, which does not exclude that the members of this gang are “Piura’s transplants”, because according to reports this is not the first times that act like this in the offense of aggravated theft under the modality of marking.

The Ministry of Interior and the Office of Planning and Statistics revealed that the region of Piura occupied the second place in mobile unit flight in 2022. The first is the metropolis of Lima.

Given this situation, it was learned that a total of 593 vehicles were stolen last year in the Piura region, in the areas of Sullana, Talara, Sechura, La Unión and Paita.

As indicated by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), 50% of the aggravated thefts were perpetrated “with firearms”; while 20% as theft and are directed against motorcycle taxis and motorcycles.

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