During the month in Riga, thieves have already stabbed three guards / day

On May 22, police received a call to a shopping venue in Sarkandaugava, Riga, where a man had stabbed a store guard and fled from the scene. It is known that he attacked the security officer with a paper knife after the security guard wanted to prevent the theft, the State Police informed LETA.

The man stabbed the guard in his stomach, cut his hand and fled him. The store security guard was taken to a medical facility.

The identity of the attacker was promptly identified and extensive forces were involved in finding the guilty man. A few hours later, law enforcement officers detained a man born in 1992.

The detainee has previously been in the police’s cage of various types of crimes and will decide on the application of the hardest security measure to him.

The criminal proceedings have been initiated under the Criminal Law article on the attack on a person due to its involvement in the prevention or termination of a criminal or other unlawful cause. Such a crime shall be sentenced to up to five years’ imprisonment or temporary imprisonment or probation supervision.

It has already been reported that a similar case occurred on April 26 at the shopping center in Kengarags, Riga.

On the evening of April 26, police received a call to a shopping center in Kengarag, where a man had stabbed two security guards and fled from the scene. It is known that the man attacked the security guards after the guards arrested him for theft from a store.

At a time when employees have taken the alleged thief to the security space, the villain pulled out a knife and stabbed both security guards.

The identity of the attacker was initially unknown, but law enforcement identified him after video surveillance. The alleged guilty man was born in 1978 and was previously convicted of theft and drug storage. During the operational events, law enforcement officers found out in an apartment in a suburb of Latgale in a apartment in Riga.