Bizarre moment thieves wanted for stealing $15,000 bicycles laugh at cops after they were arrested in Colombia
This is the moment a trio of suspects laughed at police after they were arrested for robbing two cyclists in the Colombian city of Choachí.
The perpetrators, all Venezuelan nationals, are said to have ambushed the victims, including professional cyclist Javier Jamaica, on Tuesday.
Jamaica told Noticias Caracol that after knocking him off his bicycle, the suspects beat him up and tied him up before taking his cell phone, helmet, sunglasses and cycling shoes.
They left him with another cyclist, who had been robbed 15 minutes earlier, and fled before being captured later.
Donanfer Lunar was arrested Tuesday along with two other men in Choachí, Colombia, after allegedly beating and robbing two cyclists. Authorities in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, had been looking for Lunar since March 24 when he was filmed (seen here) robbing a man at knifepoint and fleeing on his electric scooter.
Donanfer Lunar (right) and his accomplice were captured on video laughing at police at a police station in the Colombian municipality of Choachí, where authorities arrested them on Tuesday for attacking two men and robbing their bicycles
Cundinamarca police commander Colonel Andrés Serna said in a statement that the suspects also forced their victims to provide their bank details and transfer an unspecified amount of money.
Police were able to track down the three suspects as they were riding in a stolen vehicle and recovered both bicycles, valued at approximately $15,000 each.
The suspects were identified as Arles Olivares, Reinel Granadilla and Donanfer Lunar.
Lunar was wanted by authorities after he was filmed robbing a man of his electric scooter in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, on March 24.
Donanfer Lunar stares at a police officer’s cell phone camera as his two accomplices laughed while sitting at a local police station in Choachí, Colombia
Professional cyclist Javier Jamaica revealed he was beaten and tied up in a forest before three suspects escaped with his bicycle, worth about $15,000
The footage showed Lunar threatening the victim with a knife in the middle of a pedestrian bridge, while his accomplice ordered him to hand over his personal belongings.
Authorities are still looking for the victim of the March robbery for questioning.
The lead prosecutor on the case revealed that the suspects had carefully planned their robberies at two different points near forested areas in Choachí and Bogotá.
In addition to stealing bicycles and electric scooters, the criminal gang also led their victims to forest areas, where they forced them to unblock their mobile phones and transfer money from their bank accounts or ask them to hand over their passwords.
“You knew that there were people cycling in the sector where you were,” the prosecutor said.
“You take his cell phone, bicycle, glasses and the other things he had on him, tie him up and leave him there,” the prosecutor said of the crime involving Jamaica.