Three men were arrested by agents of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) and the Technical Investigation Department (DTI) after committing a robbery at the Fibrocemento Factory in Santiago de Cuba, which belongs to the Perdurit Fibrocemento Company.
According to a report on Facebook from the profile "Héroes del Moncada," linked to the Ministry of the Interior, the incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday.
The individuals involved breached the perimeter fence of the facility, assaulted a security guard, and gained access to a storage room from which they stole seven EcoFlow power stations, one solar panel, six batteries, and five diesel chargers.
The police were already monitoring the individuals before the operation and intercepted them as they attempted to leave the location with the stolen equipment.
According to the official source, all stolen goods would have been recovered during the operation, and the tools used to commit the robbery were confiscated.
The affected facility, officially known as the Fibrocemento "Armando Mestre Martínez" Company, is located on the Refinery Road, at kilometer 2½, in the industrial zone of Santiago de Cuba, and primarily supplies the eastern half of the archipelago with construction materials.
In recent months, with the rise in crime in Cuba, there have been reports of robberies at state entities where security guards have been violently attacked.
In May, four individuals assaulted, gagged, and tied up the guard of the water pumping station in the Oscar Lucero neighborhood, in the municipality of Holguín, and stole the 32 photovoltaic solar panels that powered the system.
In September, seven people were arrested following a violent robbery at the mipyme Almacenes Escambray, in Pinar del Río, where they also threatened the security guard.
On the other hand, amid the energy crisis affecting the country, items such as EcoFlow stations, solar panels, and batteries have reached a very high value in the Cuban informal market, making them prime targets for theft, both in homes and in public places.
In Santiago de Cuba, between May and September of this year, at least 11 solar panels were reported stolen from ETECSA's infrastructure in the city, impacting hundreds of users.
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