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The crime was committed on October 12, around 1 pm, in Lazdijai. Officials received a report that three masked people had invaded the home, tying up a woman (born 1984), a minor (born 2007) and a man (born 1977) and demanding a gun-like object. money, kidnapped two gold rings and 200 euros.
Masked individuals set the man on fire. Giedrius Vilčinskas, nicknamed Upelinis from Lazdijai, was attacked and wounded, known to the police as a dealer and carrier of smuggled cigarettes. The man was hospitalized. The woman and the minor did not go to medical institutions.
Already a day later, one of the suspects fell into the hands of law enforcement officers. On Tuesday, with the help of SBGS officials, the man was arrested in the Lazdijai area. Thursday in Alytus County. Police officers shared the news that a total of four suspects had been arrested.
“It just came to our attention then. The next morning, a suspect was arrested in Vilnius County. The 28-year-old man is convicted and is known to the police. He was convicted of robbery, fraud and public order infractions. He Same day, at approximately 1 pm, a second suspect was arrested in cooperation with SBGS officials. Around 3 pm another suspect was arrested. Polish officials also helped because the crime was committed at the border. Yesterday (Wednesday) a fourth suspect was arrested in Vilnius. He is not convicted, “says Alytus County. LSC Chief Alvydas Jurgelevičius.
The two men, arrested on Tuesday, have already been detained for three months. Others will be in custody on Thursday.
The first 28-year-old man arrested is suspected of organizing the crime. The other three, aged between 20 and 26, are suspected of having committed the crime. The suspects are said to be residents of Vilnius County.
According to A. Jurgelevičius, the wounded man has not been interviewed, the doctors say his life is in danger. The perpetrators, according to the investigation, had thought well about the course of action. He arrived by car, brought flammable liquid, other tools used in the crime. Ignition is believed to have been intended as a last resort.
A. Jurgelevičius says that the logic of the crime is really very difficult to explain. The assailants broke into the house where there was a woman and a minor child, tied them up and waited for the landlord to return.
The official says the man was set on fire for the first time in 15 years of his job.
The suspects left the car in a parking lot near the house after the crime. This made it possible to reveal the course of the crime and the suspects more quickly.
It has not yet been revealed if the crime was committed due to debts, the motives are still being clarified by the police.
Delphi recalls that the attacked G. Vilčinskas became famous in 2015, when agents of the Criminal Intelligence Division of the Lazdijai Team of the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) did not stop him while he was driving a Peugeout car that belonged to him.
Edgar Balčius, an 18-year-old resident of Alytus who was sitting in a Peugeout and later killed in a hospital, was injured by a weapon released by a border guard while chasing smugglers. G. Vilčinskas was tried for leaving a person in life-threatening conditions, but he avoided actual incarceration.
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