Cartagena Local Police stopped yesterday afternoon, Wednesday July 27, a man of twenty-year-old from Colombia, for an alleged crime of attempted robbery.
The incident occurred towards the 15.15 noon when officers were alerted by a citizen Scot who had been bullied with a knife near the department store El à tree in La Manga.
Al's face it, the alleged gunman had run out.
The agents went to the site of the robbery attempt to locate the individual and managed to surprise a few meters away in the bus of urbanization The triol.
The detainee was threatened with a knife two women and asking them the money.
Noticing the police presence, tried to flee but was quickly intercepted by the agents.
According to police sources, at the time of the arrest, the individual spontaneously said he needed the money since he had left a drug treatment and that he had taken the knife to women but had done them no harm.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena