They capture a “tickler” in Transmilenio who camouflaged cell phones among products he claimed to sell

Crime continues to plague users of transmilenio In Bogotá, which puts the city police on high alert, as many cases are recorded and reported by citizens who use this public transport service daily; several of these individuals have been identified and captured by authorities so far in the first week of March, the latest of them a man posing as Street vendor commit crimes in the articles.

The affair was revealed from the official Twitter account of transmilenioin which a man boarded the buses of the system pretending to sell products in a shopping cart, and thus took advantage of any carelessness of the passengers and under the method of “tickling” –which consists of taking people’s things without them noticing–; This man was identified by the authorities thanks to the security cameras of the system. After committing one of his misdeeds, the man was approached by several agents after he came out of an article in the system, there they were able to find several cell phones which were hidden among the potatoes, cookies and other packages that the subject is pretending to sell to disguise your real target.

With this, there are already nine processes that have ended in the capture of criminals by the National Police within the system, including the case of a couple who used exaggerated displays of affection to distract other people and then could steal their property in the same way.

According to this same procedure, the various accounts Third Millennium Transport Company SA (Transmilenio) reported on the processes that ended with the capture of criminals within the service during the month of March, seeking to ensure that people who were victims of these criminals could identify them and bring charges against them.

In one of the largest cases so far in March, system workers and members of the National Police they had to intervene so that the citizens did not lynch each other a ‘ticklish‘inside one of the train stations transmilenio, this after some people were able to identify a man who had stolen their property, for which, with others present, they decided to beat him together, reducing the criminal until the authorities could intervene. Luckily for the victims, the offender’s actions were recorded on security cameras, allowing uniformed officers to capture and transfer him later. Similarly, the authorities and the transport department asked the community not to take the law into their own hands, inviting members of the Bogota Police in cases like this.

Thanks to the recorded complaints and the security cameras of the various stations of the system, the captures of several subjects accused of stealing cell phones and other objects have been reported, through the modality of ‘tickling‘ And ‘Rapunzel‘. Among these are three subjects captured at the police station. Street 22, as they prepared to hold up people trying to enter an articulated; two subjects previously identified as responsible for committing a robbery in the system, two men and a woman accused of stealing cell phones from the station commoners“Lovers“As a couple was known to show exaggerated displays of affection, distract system users, and then take away their belongings under the modality of ‘Tickling‘, and two individuals who had already been denounced during 2022 and despite the fact that they had changed their haircut and the way they dressed, were identified and captured by the public forces.