Death of suspect who tried to rob Army sergeant’s home and died in patrol car under investigation
The suspect attempted to break into a man’s home warlike in the city Saint Anthony of PaduaMerlot party and He died on top of a patrol car after his arrest. Considering the way the police and the challenged army officer acted, Justice is trying to clarify the circumstances for which the thief lost his life, which led to the opening of a “cause of death investigation”.
The victim of the attempted robbery is a sergeant who performs duties as Secretary to the Deputy Chief of Army Staffgeneral Carlos Alberto Carugno. That Saturday night, he heard noises and saw through security cameras installed in his home that he was being robbed, so he called 911.
AND Nissan truck of the Buenos Aires Police, belonging to the Merlo Patrol Command. According to sources with access to the case Infobaea suspect appeared “violent and tumultuous” as they tried to bring her down. It is still unclear whether the man was trapped between the perimeter bars when he tried to jump, or whether he managed to get into the house and the sergeant somehow prevented him from escaping.
According to the official version, his attitude matched that of someone who was “under the influence of some substance”. Because there was no way to calm him down, The sergeant threw pepper spray in his face.. This way they would manage to reduce him and eventually he was arrested.
The thief had no documents and he declined to identify himself. He was a young man between 25 and 30 years old, dark skin, 1.75 meters tall and short dark brown hair. As soon as he was detained in the patrol car, he would begin kick the door and hit the fence with your head which separates the seats from the mobile, always according to the description of police sources.
When they reached the 2nd Police Station in Merlo, the Deputy Commissioner in charge of the unit He ordered that he not be taken out of the Nissan truck and that they will take him directly to the nearest health center. “The man did not react with signs of sleepiness or the like,” they said during the first police actions. A dead man arrived at the Eva Perón Hospital.
Finding out what happened between the euphoric state he was in at the sergeant’s house and the “sleepiness” he displayed when he arrived at the police station is the main focus of the police investigation into the case. Juan Cruz Bamontefrom the prosecutor’s office specialized in institutional violence Morón.
Since the Buenos Aires police were involved, the police took over the investigation at the behest of the prosecutor. National Gendarmerie. Also participating was the Auditor General for Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Security of Buenos Aires, who until the deadline of this note did not take action against the two officers involved. One is an officer and the other has the rank of second lieutenant.
In the patrol car that the gendarmes found stains that could be blood. Samples were taken by swab and will be analyzed in a laboratory. Also Army pepper spray was confiscated and a mobile phone. The police vehicle was not secured in the meantime.
In it rummaging What they did at the scene, they also found a jacket Nike white with blood stains and a black shoe. They are two pieces of clothing belonging to a deceased criminal. The evidence is already available to the prosecutionas well as the security camera footage of the sergeant’s home.
Infobae they consulted Argentine military sources from where they believed it did “private act” and indicated that the Force does not provide pepper spray to uniformed personnel so this would be an element of the sergeant’s personal defence.