The police arrested the gang that had been preparing a robbery of a businessman

Officers of Transcarpathian Office for Combating Organized Crime recently received operational information that in Khust a group of criminals with firearms were preparing a robbery of a local entrepreneur. 

Identities of the attackers were established, they were taken under discreet operational control. It was decided to detain the bandits red-handed. At the scene of the crime, the police organized an ambush and one of the gangsters was arrested right in the house, where he had entered by breaking the glass in a window, with a view of taking possession of the money.

During the arrest, the attacker, a 36-year-old resident of the village of Bushtyno in Tyachiv, was carrying a 20 caliber shotgun with six cartridges, a short crow-bar and cloth gloves.

Later in the yard, the police detained the second participant of the robbery – a 16-year-old resident of Bushtyno, who in a jacket pocket had a plastic bag with 20 grams of marijuana. On the street near the house, there was a VAZ-2102, inside of which there was the third offender – a 34-year-old resident of Bushtyno. Under the driver’s seat in the car the police found and confiscated a hunting knife like a machete.

The detained trio confessed that they had been preparing for a robbery in order to take the victim’s money. Criminal proceedings over this fact have been initiated, the circumstances of the crime are being established by the investigator.
Public Relations department of the Office of MIA in the Transcarpathian region.