Cuban authorities detained 10 people who committed several armed robberies in the province of Matanzas.
It is a criminal network that is still under investigation, in which those involved used weapons, exercised violence against the victims, and also sacrificed animals in the municipalities of Colón, Los Arabos, and Calimete.
According to the case's criminal instructor, Yudiel Tomé Fernández, who explained to state television, after identifying the individuals involved, they proceeded with their arrest and search, and then they were placed in provisional detention.
Two thieves were also arrested who, armed with knives, robbed two young girls of their belongings one early morning in the areas of the Viaducto bridge.
"They told us to give them all the valuables we had. They took our phone, they took our watch, the cell phone wallets," recounted one of the victims.
The authors were spotted that same night by a patrol; upon seeing the officers, they ran away, but one was captured and was later identified by the girls.
Despite the regime's denial, the number of thefts and other violent crimes is increasingly rising amid the crisis that Cuban society is experiencing.
Last week, a man who snatched a woman's purse in Plaza de Marte park, in Santiago de Cuba, was arrested by passersby and the police who were patrolling the area.
The thief had fled after stripping the lady of her belongings, reported independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, who shared a video showing the agent guarding a suspect with handcuffed hands.
A few days earlier, the police arrested a man who stole a bag from a young environmentalist who was with her companions cleaning the beach of Guanabo, in East Havana.
The girl is a member of a group of ecologists who altruistically went to work on cleaning and sanitizing the beach. During the task, she decided to leave her bag on the sand, which contained sunscreen, her cellphone, and more than 3,000 pesos.
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