In raids on a house in the Santa Cruz neighborhood and a store in downtown Medellín, the police recovered 122 stolen cell phones and captured three people carrying three firearms and 40 doses of marijuana.
Of these teams, only eleven were reported for theft, although according to Colonel José Rafael Miranda Rojas, deputy commander of the Valle de Aburrá Metropolitan Police, all the teams were suspected of being stolen, because in the house in Santa Cruz, where they found 94 cell phones, they also found a flash box that, according to the authorities, is used to erase cell phone certificates and thus be able to sell them without traces of theft. This technology, according to the Police, is acquired on the black market for regarding $8 million.
“A team of those of us verified it and it does not appear stolen, but internally we can do a job to recover the Imei and find out who it was stolen from,” said Colonel Miranda.
In just 23 days this year, 605 people in the Aburrá Valley reported being victims of cell phone theft; 500 of them in Medellin. Last Friday, the teacher Érika Jessenia Cuadros López, 32, was murdered in the middle of a cell phone theft on 33. Those accused of the murder are an 18-year-old girl and a 17-year-old teenager, both captured and who must answer for the crimes of aggravated homicide, in competition with qualified and aggravated theft and the crime of using minors to commit crimes.