Three suspects have been arrested for the crime of the trader who bought dollars to go on vacation with his family

Last Thursday Norberto Martin Salzmanowner of a lubrication center, was murdered by a bullet to the chest in Mendoza. After a series of procedures, the police succeeded in arresting three people suspected of having participated in the crime. For investigators, it would be an organized robbery, since the criminals had information that the victim had bought dollars to go on vacation with his family.

During this Thursday, three young people were arrested and accused of having participated in the crime of Salzmann. Police sources said that during a raid in the department of Maipú, they arrested a 27-year-old man, who was the alleged driver of the Chevrolet S10 truck in which the thieves fled.

A few hours later, the other two suspects were arrested. Court sources confirmed that both were captured in the city of Las Heras and were trying to escape in a vehicle at the time.

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He Minister of Security of Mendoza, Raul Levrino there Marcelo Calipo, director general of police of the said province, confirmed the arrests and specified that the three young people were at the disposal of the prosecution, which must settle their procedural situation.

During the patrol carried out to find the suspects of the crime, the police found in the Capilla de Nieve neighborhood a completely burned van of the same brand used in the assault and homicide. For this reason, investigators argued that the vehicle was set on fire in order to eliminate all sorts of evidence. As detailed by case sources at GlobeLiveMediathe truck found had been stolen the day before the crime.

The event occurred last Thursday, while the 51-year-old victim was having lunch at her home, which is adjacent to her professional premises. At this time, two felons arrived in a Chevrolet S-10 truck, entered the store, and threatened the employees, including Salzmann’s 20-year-old daughter.

The criminals demanded the money from the safe and that’s when the man put up some resistance and struggled with the thieves, who entered the house, beat him on the head with a rifle butt and one of them shot him in the chest. . telam.

After committing the crime, the thieves escaped the scene with the safe and neighbors called 911. A few minutes later, police officers and a Coordinated Emergency Service (SEC) ambulance arrived on the scene. and found Salzmann dead.

For the investigators, the robbery was not random but the criminals organized it since they had relevant information. Recently, the trader allegedly bought dollars because he was planning to travel to Brazil this Saturday, where he would spend his holidays with his family.

After the crime, relatives and friends of the victim protested at the local Legislature and demanded justice for the crime. There they held a meeting with members of the Rights and Guarantees Commission, where “we ask that the murderers be behind bars, that there be no impunity. We are not looking for anything against the Minister of Security. We want him to help us, support us and take care of that to find the murderers,” a relative of the victim told the daily. The sun.

On the other hand, the investigation focuses on the foreign currency operations of the man who had previously carried out and analyzes the movements of a “small tree” who visited the premises on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. Meanwhile, other items analyzed are the victim’s cell phone and video recordings captured by security cameras, both company and home.

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