Leaders Of The Gang Of Assailants That Plagues Mexicali Fall.

Mica for cartelinsider.com

At least three of the seven assailants that make up the criminal gang dedicated to robberies at department stores, businesses, and restaurants in Mexicali have been arrested by the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) during various operations carried out between the Western Robbery and Vehicle Theft Agencies.

This Tuesday, February 27th, María Elena Andrade Ramírez, led a press conference where she announced the results of the operations carried out by the ministerial corps and the agents of the Public Ministry, which resulted in the capture of Francisco Manuel and Jorge Carlos, both around 30 years old, who were linked to robberies at a Welton store, another at Calimax, at the taqueria El Torito, as well as five other robberies where violence was used.

The state official commented that these two individuals were captured thanks to investigative work and the extraction of fingerprints in a car that was used to commit the crime. According to the official, the criminals used stolen cars to carry out the robberies, which was unusual since these same vehicles had a much higher value than what they obtained in their thefts.

Andrade Ramirez commented that the criminals were tracked because they already had a history related to vehicle theft, mainly. In fact, one of them had a significant number of previous arrests for this crime, but always ended up being released.

During the press conference, the State Attorney General showed videos from surveillance cameras of the establishments in order to make comparisons with the detained individuals. In fact, one of them was wearing the same t-shirt at the time of the arrest.

The official was emphatic in stating that her analysis indicates that this is a band of at least seven members, of which two were captured during the afternoon of Sunday. Despite this, the following day another robbery was carried out in another Welton store, to the Southwest of Mexicali.

“He commented that the rest of the band could be responsible for committing this crime and asserted that the possibility of their involvement in the assault against the owners of Gaby’s Bazaar is being explored, where a group of criminals broke into the business and threatened the employees to hand over the money from the day’s sales.”

The atypical thing is that the criminals used long weapons to commit the misdeeds.

During the afternoon it was reported that the Prosecutor’s Office had detained another person involved in the incident, but the conditions under which the arrest was made and the name of the alleged perpetrator were not confirmed.

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