His own dog stopped him at bites when he escaped after stealing a cell phone

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A man who had stolen a woman's cell phone after threatening her with a gun replica and then aimed it at cops who tried to stop him was caught and arrested today after being attacked by his family's Pitbull dog when he tried to take refuge in his home. of the city of Bahía Blanca, police sources reported today.

As a result of that attack, the thief, of 40 years, suffered some injuries, reason why it had to be assisted by doctors before being lodged in a police station. The incident happened after 2.30, when staff of the Patrols Command warned a suspect dressed in dark clothes walking down Calle Terrada to 2,700, of Bahía Banca.

Upon noticing the police presence the man began to run, which is why the troops began to follow him aboard the patrol. When one of the policemen got off his cell phone and tried to get close, the suspect extracted a firearm - which was later found to be a replica of a 9-millimeter pistol - and pointed it at him.

After this, the criminal tried to enter the house of his family, although he was hit by two policemen who rushed on him to stop him and disarm him. According to the sources, at that moment the father of the suspect with a Pitbull dog left the house. When he saw the struggle and the man on the ground attacked him.

"The dog, when he saw what was happening, instinctively bit the person who was being reduced, resulting in wounds to the scalp and one of his cheekbones," said the head of the Patrols Command, Gonzalo Bezos. .

The injured detainee, identified as Miguel Iturmendi, was assisted at the scene by SAME medical personnel and then transferred to the seventh police station. There it was determined that shortly before being arrested he had stolen an 18-year-old girl a cell phone, after threatening her with the replica of a pistol in Fabián González and Terrada streets.