Captured taxi driver who injured and stole three million pesos from a user in Medellin

In the last few hours, the Aburrá Valley Metropolitan Police confirmed the capture of a taxi driver accused of injuring and stealing three million pesos from a female user in the El Poblado neighborhood of Medellín.

It all started on February 5, when the woman victim of the robbery took the service and agreed on a price with the taxi driver to reach her destination in the Santa Maria neighborhood of Los Angeles. But it was when they arrived that the taxi driver charged the woman more than agreed and she, who had no more cash, suggested to make a transfer, at which the taxi driver got angry and assaulted her with a knife in the right arm and stole her cell phone, an iPhone 12 Pro Max valued at about $5,900,000.

“This led to the subject causing two injuries with a sharp weapon and stealing his cell phone,” Colonel José Galindo, operational commander of the Aburrá Valley Metropolitan Police, told Blu Radio.

Because the woman had her credit card validated on her cell phone, the taxi driver was able to perpetrate the theft of three million pesos through a home application in which “he made 30 different orders, of which 6 were made effective by paying with the credit cards registered there an amount of $3,125,699 ″, added the colonel Galindo.

According to the authorities, the capture was achieved thanks to the collection of evidence through the analysis of security camera videos, photographic recognition and interviews in the area.

The taxi driver, a 30-year-old man, was issued an arrest warrant by a judge for the crime of qualified and aggravated theft, which was carried out on public roads in the El Poblado neighborhood of Medellín, where he frequently worked as a taxi driver.

“Only with the tools we have, with technology and thanks to good articulated research can we give this type of results against theft, we sustain the offering of rewards of up to $10 million for information that leads to the capture of those responsible for mass and high-impact thefts,” said the operating assistant secretary of Security, Omar Rodriguez Aranda.

Finally, the judge determined a measure of home insurance for the taxi driver.

So far this year, 1,061 people have been captured in the Aburrá Valley for the crime of theft in all its forms, 801 of them in Medellín.

The Medellín security authorities acknowledged the increase in theft of people in the city, in the first three months of this year more than 5,700 robberies have been reported, of which more than more than 50% of the thefts in the city are concentrated in the center, El Poblado and Laureles.

According to the report of the Ministry of Security, between January, February and March there were nearly a thousand cases of robberies under the tickling modality.

The points where people are most robbed are: the center of Medellín with almost 1,500 reported cases, followed by the communes of El Poblado, Laureles — Estadio, Belén, Robledo, Aranjuez and Manrique.

The commander of the Metropolitan Police, General Javier Josué Martín Gámez, acknowledged the situation, assured that shock work is being carried out to control and prevent robberies of people. For its part, the Secretary of Security of Medellín indicated that work is being carried out with traders in the most critical areas of the capital of Antioquia.

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