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The first versions that the Police delivered, at a press conference, is that the assailants arrived at around 7:00 in the morning to the commercial establishment, located near the San Antonio station of the Medellín Metro, with a false arrest warrant and with the excuse that they were going to advance a search.
Once inside, according to Colonel Iván Santamaría, commander (e) of the Metropolitan Police, the criminals intimidated the workers with firearms and proceeded to gag them to commit the theft.
The officer confirmed, according to Telemedellín, that the thieves were dressed as policemen and they managed to flee with jewels, 700 grams of gold and about 190 million pesos in cash.
Colonel Santamaría said that when the thieves escaped they fired “some shots to scare the public,” and that the Police found an abandoned vehicle near the Castilla sector.
“The Sijín took over the investigation and has already identified two more vehicles […] They are in the location, search and capture of the subjects who undertake the flight on two motorcycles, which were also part of this event, “added the officer.
Local media such as La Chiva Alert published images of the immobilized vehicle and there it is observed that it is a Chevrolet Aveo car, and it is also appreciated that the Police cordoned off the site where the millionaire robbery was committed: in the Bolívar-Amador shopping center.
According to data from the Banco de la República, a gram of gold for sale has a price of 201,755 pesos, so the theft of this precious metal ranges between 141 million pesos.
Modality of robberies to jewelry stores in Medellín pretending to be police
A robbery similar to this was committed in a jewelry store in a commercial passage in the center of Medellín, in August 2019, when 7 men dressed as policemen and agents of the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office entered, knocking down doors to take jewelry and money.
At that time, General Eliécer Camacho, commander of the Vale de Aburrá Police, said that the “criminals, in their simulation of being in authority, had elements such as a grave door, jackets and head covers from both the CTI and the Police.
On that occasion, the Police arrested a man who was involved in the assault and who was registered by a security camera, the same strategy that they apply today in this new robbery to try to trace the false policemen.
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