They went to steal a jewelry store, got caught and had to smash the armored door to escape

This is how criminals escaped after shattering the armored jewelry door

Two foreign criminals were arrested this Friday in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta after starring in a violent robbery of a jewelry store located on Alvear Avenue, which was registered in the surveillance chambers of the City Government.

The thieves, one of Colombian nationality and another Venezuelan, entered with an accomplice at an official Rolex location pretending to be customers and asked the employee to show them several luxury items.

Moments later They beat the seller, handcuffed him and locked him in a back room of the place.

It was at that time that criminals took advantage of the cost of watches that were on display and wanting to leave the premises they found that the doors were armored so they tried to open them using, by mistake, the panic button that communicates with the City Police.

Seeing that the doors did not open they had to use a mace to break them and run away. The entire sequence of the escape, since they left the premises, was recorded by security cameras posted in different parts of the City.

Alerted of what happened, the members of the Neighborhood Police Station 2 A began the persecution. One of them was arrested in Avenida Del Libertador and Ayacucho, while the other in Alvear 1940. A third criminal, meanwhile, was able to elude agents and He fled aboard a motorcycle on 9 de Julio Avenue.

He was kidnapped eight Rolex watches, the keys of the local safe, the keys of the shop and a 9 mm gun.

Foreigners were charged with "theft, attack and resistance to authority, illegitimate deprivation of liberty and possession of weapons of war."

The case is investigated by the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 13 by Dr. Zelaya.