Frightening moment when woman is held up by gang disguised as cops who invaded her home in Argentina and threatened to shoot her daughter, 8, unless she handed over gold and cash
This is the frightening moment a gang of masked burglars dressed as cops held a homeowner at gunpoint and abducted an electrician before they forced them inside her home and took off with a stash of jewelry, cash and cellphones.
A surveillance camera showed 34-year-old Mariana stepping out of a taxi and the worker removing his belongings from the trunk of his vehicle when 11 armed men burst out of two vehicles and knocked them to the ground Wednesday in the Buenos Aires city of Moreno.
As many as eight suspects holding guns and rifles forced the mother-of-three daughters and the electrician into her home after they falsely claimed they were conducting a raid. Once inside, the gunmen hit the man in the head with a gun and locked him inside one of the bedrooms.
Mariana, 34, steps out of a taxi (red vehicle) and an electrician opens his car's trunk on Wednesday afternoon before a group of burglars disguised as cops jumped out of two vehicles, including a SUV , and forced the pair into the woman's home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where they held her family at gunpoint and later left with jewelry, cash and two cellphones. No arrests have been made
Masked gunmen, who identified themselves as cops conducting a raid, storm inside the Buenos Aires, Argentina, home of 34-year-old Marina on Wednesday afternoon. The suspects were seeking millions of Argentine pesos and gold that they claimed the mother-of-three and her husband kept at the residence
Mariana told Argentine news network Todo Noticias that the armed burglars held her at gunpoint inside a bedroom and then threatened to kidnap her eight-year-old daughter and shoot her as they pointed a gun a her head before she grabbed her child away from one of the men
At least two of the burglars held Mariana in another bedroom and repeatedly asked her to hand over the millions of Argentine pesos and gold that they claimed she and her husband had stored away at her house, according to Argentine news network Todo Noticias.
Mariana said one of the men went for Claudia, her eight-year-old daughter, and threatened to kidnap her while aiming a gun at her head.
The concerned mother grabbed Claudia's arm while the gunman held her other arm and continued to point the gun at the child.
'I closed my eyes and thought I was dying. I never let go of her hand,' Mariana recalled.
Armed burglars posing as cops surround Mariana (pictured lying on the ground) before they forced her inside her Buenos Aires, Argentina, home on Wednesday. The suspects, at least 11, abandoned the residence with a stash of jewelry, cash and two cellphones
Suspects act as lookouts during a home invasion Wednesday in Buenos Aires, Argentina
The men decided to abandon the house when neighbors activated their security system alarms after catching wind of the home invasion.
Mariana said the men left with her collection of jewelry, 50,000 Argentine pesos $600, and two cellphones.
The woman added that her husband was mugged two months ago for an undisclosed amount of money while he was on his way to purchase chickens for her father-in-law's poultry shop. Mariana recently saw strange vehicles stopping in front of her house and reported it to the local police.
No arrests had been reported by authorities in connection to Wednesday's burglary.