“He was dressed in dark clothes and with a hood; He was naked and threatened me with a knife-like weapon. He told me it was a theft, to give him all the money in cash. “I walked into the warehouse and he shut the door in my face.” The attack on the gas station in the Azucaica district of Toledo lasted barely a minute and the alleged perpetrator, a 43-year-old man with numerous previous convictions for other incidents, was arrested a kilometer away from there.
The theft became known on Tuesday after the National Police reported the theft, which occurred eight days ago. The victim, manager of this gas station, explained to ABC that this happened on the night of Monday October 28 around half past nine.
She observed the criminal enter using her cell phone, to which the security camera circuit was connected. “I saw that he was hooded, but I didn’t imagine that he was coming to steal. “I assumed he was a customer.”The woman, who was in the warehouse because she was restocking products, said calmly.
He went out to take care of himself without thinking about what awaited him. “When he came in, he stepped up his pace, told me it was a theft and that I had to give him all the money,” he recalls. “I was terrified when I saw how he threatened me with the dagger. I told him to be calm, not to hurt me, and I gave him all the money in the register,” he continues.
The man asked her for her cell phone and she said it was inside the warehouse. “I went in and he followed me, threatening me with his gun. I handed him the phone, he closed the door in his face and fled. He closed the door without locking it, I was able to get out and I saw him running away,” he continued.
The victim called 091 and several patrol cars, in uniform and in camouflaged vehicles, showed up at the gas station. With the description of the thief, Officers located an individual with the same characteristics about a kilometer away.in the Azucaica district. It was “a few minutes after committing the crime”, according to the national police, even if the woman specified that she was going to arrest him on Tuesday “early in the morning”.
In any event, the alleged perpetrator He wore the same clothes he had been beaten with and she recovered her cell phone which is scratched and she will have to take it to the technical service.
The man was brought to court on Thursday, but It was not revealed whether he was imprisoned or released with precautionary measures.. “I don’t know,” replies the victim, who has not recovered all the money that the thief had taken.
