Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
In a police operation in the populous Kenndey colony in the capital of Honduras, three women were arrested on Saturday on suspicion of various crimes in the area, including vehicle theft and belonging to the criminal gang known as “Les Rosses”, Reported the National Police.
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The monitoring and surveillance work in the area triggered the capture of the suspects in an operation forged by officers assigned to the Department of Property Crimes of the Police Investigation Directorate, DPI.
Among the detainees, all identified as individual traders, are 1:00 a 35-year-old female, another 33-year-old and the last 22-year-old. They will be charged with crimes of swindle in his degree of execution of unfinished attempt, theft and association to commit a crime against two protected witnesses.
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The operation began on February 9, when the National Police received a complaint through a phone call in which a protected witness claimed to have been the victim of theft by the suspects.
The individual reported that, that day, he was with his wife in a restaurant in Tegucigalpa; upon leaving the establishment and heading for his vehicle, he noticed that the driver’s side door had been opened. Upon entering it, he realized that his backpack had been stolen.
Inside it, the witness was carrying a laptop, valued at 49,000 lempiras. In addition to phone chargers and his wife’s purse he carried debit cards and bank credit.
After the incident, the citizen’s wife received a notification via cell phone in which the bank indicated that the debit card had been denied in a supermarket, for a purchase amounting to 5,000 lempiras.
Three days later, after investigative and location work, police officers decided to mount an operative at one of the main entrances to the Kennedy colony, where the women were found and would be captured.
The suspects were confiscated multiple debit and credit cards, vehicle keys and mobile phones. The protected witness indicated that the stolen computer had been sold by the women. In investigation through mobile phones as evidence, it was possible to identify the buyer, so that elements of the National Police recovered the item.
The detainees will be remanded, police authorities told the prosecutor’s office around the region, for the due process investigation and indictment.