Dismantle gang responsible for million-dollar robberies in houses in Cienfuegos.

Several young people from the Cienfuegos municipality of Cumanayagua were captured and accused of being part of a gang that robbed homes in the area.

The officialist Facebook profile called "Las Cosas de Fernanda" made a video in which it identifies three detainees as Luis Miguel Morales Téllez, alias “El Sárnico,” Asniel Becerra “El Tenca,” and Roberto Martínez “El Pollo,” Carlos Manuel “El Cute,” among other involved parties.

The alleged gang operated at night and targeted unoccupied homes, from where they managed to steal televisions, appliances, and money.

According to this source, which reproduces the events in the style of the television program Tras la Huella, "the wrongdoers watched the residents, as well as the people who looked after the houses, in order to later commit their misdeeds."

Among those affected is a private business owner, a local doctor from whom almost $30,000 and nearly one million Cuban pesos were taken, among other residents.

"The affected individuals hope that the investigations will allow them to recover something of what they lost at the hands of these criminals," says this profile, tasked with praising the work of the Cuban police, which has been questioned for the slowness of its processes and the permissiveness in the growth of crime and violence in the country.

Last August, the official Cuban press acknowledged that thieves in the province of Cienfuegos take advantage of power outages to break into occupied homes while their residents are inside.

In a report published by the official newspaper 5 de Septiembre, the testimony of several victims is collected, who were sleeping during a blackout, often with the doors open due to the intense heat, and were robbed.

According to the information, at least ten families have experienced this traumatic event. Many of them retrieved their belongings during a public distribution carried out around that time by the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) in Villuendas Park, located in the area where the thefts were concentrated.

But insecurity is not limited only to thefts. Also in August, neighbors from the municipality of Cruces assisted a man who was stabbed in the middle of the street during a blackout.

The man was walking unsteadily until he fell at the corner and began to ask for help almost imperceptibly.