Police arrest man suspected of participating in million-peso robbery in La Reina

SANTIAGO.- Officers belonging to the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the PDI in La Reina have arrested a man recognized as one of the four assailants that broke into the home of Zandra Parisi (the sister of Franco Parisi) located on Pasaje Helsby in the aforementioned municipality on Sunday night.

The 23 year-old man has been identified as having the initials I.A.G.P. and was detained in the municipality of Peñalolén while trying to pawn some of the items that had been stolen during the violent robbery, which according to the victims resulted in over $40 million pesos in stolen property.

Police Chief Eduardo Ullivarri stated that "after 48 hours of police work, we were able to establish that this person was selling items with similar characteristics to those that had been stolen from the victim's home. Once he was brought to the station, he was recognized in a photograph and identified by the victim with 100% certainty".

According to Officer Ullivarri, the man arrested has confessed and was identified by the kindergarten teacher as the individual that touched her inappropriately during the heist.  The woman identified the man as the most violent of the assailants.