{"id":151349,"date":"2025-06-21T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/a-gang-of-thieves-was-caught-red-handed-in-buenos-aires-after-stealing-14-cell-phones\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T15:28:07","slug":"a-gang-of-thieves-was-caught-red-handed-in-buenos-aires-after-stealing-14-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/a-gang-of-thieves-was-caught-red-handed-in-buenos-aires-after-stealing-14-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"A gang of thieves was caught red-handed in Buenos Aires after stealing 14 cell phones."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Bust of a Cell Phone Theft Gang in Buenos Aires<\/h2>\n<p>A \u00a0gang of thieves\u00a0, known as &#8220;pungas,&#8221; was recently apprehended by the \u00a0Buenos Aires City Police\u00a0 while in the act of stealing from unsuspecting victims in the commercial district of the Flores neighborhood. When captured, they were found in possession of \u00a014 stolen cell phones\u00a0, belonging to multiple victims whom they had targeted within a matter of hours and in broad daylight.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects include \u00a0a 48-year-old Peruvian man\u00a0 and three Argentine women, two aged \u00a026 and one aged 52\u00a0, according to police reports. Their modus operandi is not unusual: they acted in a coordinated manner, seeking high pedestrian traffic areas to spot their victims and carry out their thefts unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>The gang&#8217;s downfall came after they were spotted by operators at the \u00a0Urban Monitoring Center (CMU)\u00a0. Using security cameras positioned in the area, operators noticed \u00a0two gang members\u00a0, a man and a woman, engaging in suspicious behavior at Avenida Rivadavia, near the Miserere subway station.<\/p>\n<p>Through real-time visual monitoring, the operators recognized these two as having participated in a cell phone robbery moments earlier at the intersection of Avenida Nazca and Bogot\u00e1. Immediate alerts were sent out to patrolling police forces, who swiftly moved to intercept the suspects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visual__image\">\n    <picture><source  media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\"\/><source  media=\"(min-width: 768px)\"\/><source  media=\"(min-width: 580px)\"\/><source  media=\"(min-width: 350px)\"\/><source  media=\"(min-width: 80px)\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"article-figcaption-img\">The arrested suspects<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p>Using detailed descriptions provided by the CMU, police successfully intercepted the two suspects near the subway station. At the same time, a key piece of information emerged from the monitoring center: the suspects were accompanied by \u00a0two additional women\u00a0, who had likely boarded the \u00a0Line A subway train towards Plaza de Mayo\u00a0 immediately after the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing this new development, a tactical operation was launched in collaboration with specialized personnel from the \u00a0Subways Division\u00a0 of Lines A and B. Officers waited on the appropriate platform for the train&#8217;s arrival, setting up a search effort to identify the accomplices based on video evidence and descriptions from the monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the two women were located and arrested upon disembarking from the train. Following identification, police conducted searches and confirmed suspicions that both were involved in a series of public robberies.<\/p>\n<p>Among the belongings of the suspects, police recovered \u00a014 cell phones of various brands\u00a0, allegedly stolen during different incidents executed with the punga tactic in high-traffic areas. A preliminary investigation indicates that all these devices were likely taken the same day, within only a few hours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visual__image\">\n    <picture><source  media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\"\/><source  media=\"(min-width: 768px)\"\/><source  media=\"(min-width: 580px)\"\/><source  media=\"(min-width: 350px)\"\/><source  media=\"(min-width: 80px)\"\/><img alt=\"Seized cell phones\" class=\"global-image\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"low\" height=\"4874\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/A-gang-of-thieves-was-caught-red-handed-in-Buenos-Aires.jpeg\" width=\"1920\"\/>\n    <\/picture><figcaption class=\"article-figcaption-img\">Seized cell phones<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p>Following the arrests, an investigation was initiated, and the \u00a0National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 35\u00a0, overseen by Judge \u00a0Osvaldo Rappa\u00a0, authorized the detention of the gang members and the confiscation of the recovered devices.<\/p>\n<p>The four suspects are now detained at the \u00a03 A neighborhood police station\u00a0. They are facing charges under the case labeled as \u201cinvestigation of illicit activity,\u201d while authorities work to identify potential victims and trace the origins of the stolen cell phones.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/category\/general\/\" rel=\"dofollow\">General News &#8211; 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bust of a Cell Phone Theft Gang in Buenos Aires A \u00a0gang of thieves\u00a0, known as &#8220;pungas,&#8221; was recently apprehended by the \u00a0Buenos Aires City Police\u00a0 while in the act of stealing from unsuspecting victims in the commercial district of the Flores neighborhood. When captured, they were found in possession of \u00a014 stolen cell phones\u00a0, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22394,22393,1186,9510,1264,11107,13354,7933,6049],"class_list":["post-151349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mazagine","tag-aires","tag-buenos","tag-caught","tag-cell","tag-gang","tag-phones","tag-redhanded","tag-stealing","tag-thieves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}