Montevideo: Violent robbery of a high-turnover hotel | Daily Change

The Police are looking for three criminals who at dawn yesterday robbed a high-turnover hotel, located in the Aguada area of ​​the country’s capital, the criminals were three men and one woman. The subjects surprised the receptionist, a 60-year-old man, and held him down after breaking glass. While the two men decided what to remove from the place, “the woman pointed a gun at the victim, which resulted in injuries to the head, as a result of the explosion of the glass.” They also reduced the manager, 30 years old. The woman told the police that the criminals took the collection from that place, “about 28 thousand pesos, 12 boxes of cigarettes and a Johnnie Walker flask.” The thieves, not satisfied with that, went to a room, number 7, where there were customers. They stole a 38-year-old man, his civic credential, his identity card, his driver’s license, a bank card and a leather wallet with 3,800 Uruguayan pesos. The 41-year-old woman was brought a cell phone, identity card, cards, keys to work, 8,000 Uruguayan pesos and a backpack. On the run, a 55-year-old woman’s wallet was stolen. She reported the theft of 1,000 pesos, her identity card and the bank card. Scientific Police personnel carried out investigations at the site and now the video surveillance cameras of the complex are being analyzed to try to identify the two men and the woman. “Blood was found at the scene,” which is presumed to be from one of the criminals. “Surely when he broke the glass he hurt himself,” the researchers said. Personnel from Operational Zone I took charge of the different actions.
TACUAREMBÓ: MAN WHO BREAKED AT PARTY AND FIREARM FOR VARIOUS CRIMES
The man who entered with a firearm and shot into the air due to annoying noise at a party in Tacuarembó was charged with several crimes.
According to the record of the prosecutor Ignacio Montedeocar, the man was charged as the criminally responsible perpetrator of a crime of carrying a firearm in public places and for another of particularly aggravated private violence.
On the other hand, he was also charged with crimes of particularly aggravated house violation, a crime of firing a firearm and another of damage, in all cases in real reiteration.
For these crimes, the prosecutor requested preventive detention and ordered house arrest with the use of an electronic anklet for 120 days. The impossibility for the man to communicate with the victims was also established. The case was evidenced thanks to the viralization of a video on social networks. The fight took place in a house in Olimpia Pintos on May 25 in Tacuarembó. There, a farewell was held with the presence of many young people, when around 5 in the morning a neighbor burst into the patio of the house where the party was being held to recriminate the noise, the high volume of the music and the time. The discussion led to fist blows and later, as seen in the footage, the man extracted a firearm from his clothes, threatened and fired a shot in the air. The youths ran out of the house, two of them were injured as a result of the fight, but none were wounded by a bullet, said the Tacuarembó Police Headquarters.