Boqueteros took a family hostage to rob a treasury company

A group of thieves took a family hostage in the town of Santa Fe de Rosario and opened a hole in the wall of their house, which is adjacent to a transport company., from which they stole an as yet unspecified sum of money, law enforcement sources said today.

The boqueteros They entered a house in Presidente Roca at 2700 de Rosario last night at around 9:00 p.m., and from there they entered the property of the Brinks treasury company, where they committed the theft around midnight. Spokespersons for the case said “what was stolen would be a large sum of money, not yet specified.”

The family that was taken hostage did not suffer attacks or violence from thieves, according to one of the victims, who ended up with a huge hole in a wall of his residence. “They did some intelligence work on us, you can see that they knew the movement of my house, because they were surprised by the presence of my daughter and my grandson,” said Guillermo Algañaraz, 62 years old. , the House’s owner.

From what he told the local press this morning, Algañaraz, who lives in the house with his brother, received his daughter around 9 a.m. last night, who came to visit him with her grandson. The door was open because he was waiting for me, a girl who came to visit us with my grandson. It is clear that they knew the place and did some intelligence work beforehand, ”said the man, a retired teacher. He explained that behind his daughter “the criminals entered” and added that the attackers “were surprised when they saw” his grandson, since one of them asked: “Why so many people?”

According to investigators, two men tied up the four people and locked them in a room, and kept a “guard” on the hostages. Meanwhile, another group – whom police believe based on Algarañaz’s testimony that there may be five people – have started drilling holes in the border wall, which overlooks the Brinks company warehouse. They worked with their own tools and also took some from the house, Algarañaz said.

Spokesmen for the case said the Brinks company had security personnel, although apparently they were not there for the long vacations.A neighbor also noticed the noises on Monday evening, so she yelled at her neighbor if anything was going on. Algarañaz said one of the thieves asked him to answer that they were fixing a pipe, while the rest of the gang finished opening the hole in the wall.

Investigations indicate that the thieves escaped through the bottom of the detained family’s property, which overlooks some railroad tracks. “They left us tied up, after they left we spent over half an hour until we could free ourselves,” said the retired teacher., to add that they also brought the phones, in order to isolate them. Eventually, Algarañaz managed to leave his home with his hands tied behind his back and enlisted the help of a taxi driver, who notified the police.

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