An off-duty police officer stopped a man who He tried to steal a vehicle with a woman and her two children insidea 4-year-old boy and a baby, on Tomás Alonso Street in Vigo, facilitating the arrest of the suspect.
The events occurred this Tuesday at noon, when an off-duty officer who was driving his motorcycle on Tomás Alonso Street saw a young man shouting that someone was taking the car and that They kidnapped his wife and children.who were inside the vehicle, according to police sources.
The officer himself explained in a video posted on social media by the National Police that after listening to the young man, He drove his motorcycle after the carwho was “making erratic maneuvers” in the street.
Arrest and imprisonment
When he managed to overtake the vehicle, the policeman quickly got off the motorcycle and saw that the thief, who had stopped, was “threatening the woman with a knife”who had the baby in his arms. Immediately, the officer opened the door and pulled the man out of the car, grabbed his arm and disarmed him, before throwing him to the ground.
With the collaboration of a citizen, he contacted 091 and several officers quickly arrived on the scene and took the detainee, who was brought to justice.
The judge of the Court of Instruction Number 3 of Vigo, acting as guardian, decreed his entry into provisional prisonreleased and without bail. The man is being investigated for the alleged crimes of robbery with violence, unlawful confinement, assault and injury.
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