The attackers used a relic worth US $ 22,000 as a weapon



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They attacked companies with a weapon that was worth more than the fruit of their looting. Two assailants, captured last Wednesday in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia carried with them a relic that would have spat the mouths of the most exquisite weapons collectors.

Juan Camilo Mengual Arrieta (27) aka "Juanca" and Jorge David Garcés Chávez (24), destined to attack a local sportswear store, when they were surprised by a patron of the metropolitan police of Cartagena . In his possession, the police found the bags in which they planned to take the loot and props to immobilize the workers of the premises. The surprise came at the time of the police search.

Under the old Lakers T-shirt of one of the assailants was a Luger P08 Parabellum caliber 22 a gun used in the First and Second World War, considered a jewel among collectors. Manufactured and marketed between 1900 and 1942, its current value on the specialized market may exceed 22 thousand dollars

The Colombian police have established that the weapon has entered the country since Venezuela through the parents of Mengual Arrieta. According to the authorities, the Luger was used in attacks while waiting to find a collector to sell it.

The two detainees were made available to the Attorney General's Office of the Nation for the crime of trafficking and carrying firearms, and then, on the order of a safeguards control judge, Veal Prison where they will face the investigation.

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