This is how ‘Los Pumas’ operated, stealing cars from drivers

After two years of meticulous investigation and monitoring, the Bogotá Metropolitan Police announced the dismantling of the common organized criminal group known as ‘Los Pumas’.

This criminal network had specialized in the theft of high-end vehicles and automobiles linked to transport technological platforms in at least seven locations in the capital.

The judicial file reconstructed two main modes of operation that the organization used to carry out the robberies.

In the first of them, the criminals requested transportation services through mobile applications and, once the journey had begun, they proceeded to intimidate the drivers with firearms to take away their cars, subsequently abandoning the victims in peripheral or remote areas of the city.

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The second modality consisted of group attacks against owners of high-end vehicles, who were accosted with physical violence just as they were parking their cars in front of their residences.

Once the theft was committed, the vehicles were hidden in garages of private homes or in shopping center parking lots to evade tracking by the authorities. According to the investigation, the destination of these goods varied between scrapping for the sale of auto parts and publication on social networks for illegal marketing.