Violent persecution in Ituzaingó: criminals attacked police officers with a machine gun

A routine vehicle control in the West Access led yesterday to a violent shooting and subsequent persecution by the Buenos Aires party of Ituzaingó. The occupants of a black Chevrolet Cruze shot the officers on duty with a machine gun and fled, but a short time later they were arrested while attempting to commit other crimes in the area.

Sources close to the file confirmed to Infobae that everything happened around 3 in the afternoon and at kilometer 26 of the highway. The officers in charge of the checkpoint stopped the vehicle with five occupants and required the necessary documentation to identify them. The driver handed over his IDs, but his companions refused and fired a machine gun at the uniformed men before they fled.

The police repelled the assault and there was a shooting between the parties, during which it was determined that the assailants carried an Uzi type machine gun and possessed fist weapons.

Faced with this situation, there was a deadbolt operation in which mobiles from different units intervened to prevent the thieves from completing their escape. According to the images captured by security cameras in the municipality of Ituzaingó, the agents located the suspects on 600 Muñiz Avenue, where one of them got out of the vehicle and tried to steal a Peugeot 306. However, the 33-year-old man, domiciled in the Merlo party, was apprehended by the agents who were part of the persecution, according to police sources.

Meanwhile, at the corner of Catalina Badaracco and Paysandú streets, the criminals abandoned the vehicle that had a bullet hole in the rear left lens.

Thanks to the collaboration of the monitoring centers in Ituzaingó and Morón, the security forces managed to apprehend another of the assailants, 43 years old, on San Pedro Street, already in the town of Castelar. “He was identified by a bag of sporting goods,” a police source told Primer Plano Online.

Both detainees were placed at the disposal of the decentralized Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 2 of Ituzaingó, headed by prosecutor Maria Laura Cristini, and are accused of assault and resistance to authority, abuse of weapons, aggravated cover-up and car theft. Meanwhile, the other three members of the band remain at large and are intensely sought after.

This Thursday, a Bolivian citizen and an Argentine woman were detained in the middle of a vehicular control mounted on General Paz Avenue, at the height of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Liniers. There, members of the Argentine Federal Police checked the vehicle in which the couple was driving and were surprised: they were carrying school bags in which hid four kilos of cocaine.

When investigated by security officers, the driver of the white Citroën Berlingo hesitated at some rigorous questions and raised suspicions. The woman then raised her voice and said that they were working for a wholesaler and that they were delivering three parcels.

The occupants of the utility, who were traveling to the southern Buenos Aires area, were apprehended by federal agents of the Department of Fiscal Crimes when they reached the crossing between General Paz and Emilio Castro, where they had to stop the march due to the presence of the police checkpoint.

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