Colombian constabulary ended a gambling casino robbery in Santa Marta in the act as this week, potentially stopping a offence spree. Among those captured is a piece on the heel of most-wanted criminals inwards the city.

Three youth men were caught in flagrante delicto spell storming a casino on the urban perimeter of Santa Marta on Colombia’s Caribbean Sea coast this week. Police identified the detainees as Brian “Bryan” Augusto Cantillo Salcedo, Estiven Aldemar García Ortiz, and Fernando José Nieto Leal, a.k.a. Fercho, according to media outlet El Heraldo.

The gaining control of the triplet was possible due, inward part, to the intervention of the local community. They warned police force that an armed robbery was underway within the casino. When the police arrived, they instantly came below fire, forcing them into action.

Fercho was stab inwards the left wing pes as he exchanged gunfire. But the officers prevailed and arrested all three. The human foot combat injury wasn’t life-threatening.

Gang Takedown

At the clip of the incident, law found a Julia Evelina Smith & Wesson revolver, sixer 38-caliber cartridges, and an Ekol pistol, which only if fires blanks. However, it wasn’t loaded and the constabulary didn’t regain any ammunition.

Police also recovered quintet cubicle phones, bags with personal items, and 411,000 pesos ($102.30) inwards cash. That hard currency was allegedly all the robbers gained from the gambling casino heist.

But the binge was substantial for law of nature enforcement. Fercho reportedly has a strike flat solid that included aggravated theft inwards 2015, 2022, and theft inwards 2017 and 2019. In addition, Boy Orator of the Platte is 1 of Santa Marta’s to the highest degree wanted criminals and a prime surmise inward a string up of robberies inward the sphere of the University of Magdalena.

Casinos Always Make Tempting Targets

Colombia has dealt with its share of casino robberies, as well.

In July of utmost year, octonary armed men broke into the Texas Luxury gambling casino in Barranquilla. After stripping the safety device of his arm and shot a few warning rounds from their guns, the robbers seized an estimated 36 1000000 pesos (US$8,960) inward cash and goods.

Witnesses reported that the criminals arrived at the gates of the cassino inward a taxi. After committing the crime, they fled inward the same vehicle. Other witnesses say that the subjects, in gain to the taxi, also arrived on deuce motorcycles.

The thieves took the customers’ belongings, including cash, jewelry, and cell phones. The robbery, according to witnesses, did non make more than trey minutes. Police ne'er caught the attackers.

A month later, a robbery occurred inwards a casino in the municipality of Funza, in the department of Cundinamarca. Local media reported that the subjects initially got forth with about 16 meg pesos (US$3,982). Police intervened during the robbers’ getaway, leading to a shootout.

The exchange left wing ii of the subjects injured and three of them captured. It would hold been hard for the criminals to visit any impairment – the media reported they used prop guns like the Ekol.