New Crime Alert: How Actor Gonzalo Valenzuela Was Robbed

Last Friday evening, before the intense frontal system hit Santiago, the actor Gonzalo Valenzuela he shared with his friends and his wife, Kika Silva. They were in a bar in the commune of Vitacura , when the woman decided to leave early and accidentally took Valenzuela’s phone.

A few minutes later, the strong wind and rain began. Valenzuela, not having his cell phone with him to call a car through an app, decided to walk down the street “to see if he could get a taxi.”

That’s when a car pulled up next to him and asked if he needed an Uber. “He showed me the card machine. Condemn, There I trusted, when he showed me the machine, I climbed in with pleasure. “I thought I had fallen from the sky.” said to The last news .

The driver was far from an angel. What happened next was a nightmare for the actor, since he was a criminal who allegedly drugged and swindled him, a mode of operation of delinquency which has already been recorded on different occasions in Chile.

Once out of the rain, Gonzalo Valenzuela thought the man who offered him help was good and would take him home. As he described it to the media, The driver was a Chilean of solid build.

Urban music was playing on the radio.

But suddenly he felt strange and quickly lost consciousness. Valenzuela believes they drugged him when he left the scene and that later, in the supposed Uber, they completed the “task.” The only flash he has of the moment is that he started crying in the vehicle.

The driver “asked me why I was crying and offered me water, which I accepted because it looked like a new mineral, as closed. Suddenly he tells me he is going to charge me 7,000 pesos.

That’s when the biggest scam happened. The driver took Valenzuela’s card and swiped it through the machine to pay. The stunned actor entered his password, but it didn’t work the first time: “The rooster said to me ‘let’s try again’ and of course, then he had to look at my code and say to me ‘we see, lend me the card so I can put it in’.”

“He put it under the machine and nothing, it didn’t work. I told him to stop at a gas station, that I would have money to pay him.

Valenzuela got out of the car to go to an ATM and, when he had already taken a few steps towards Copec, he saw the vehicle driving away down the street. I had left him alone there. When he looked at the card in his hands, he realized that it was not his, but someone else’s. “I had changed cards,” he denounced.

The interpreter does not know how he got home, but he had to do it on foot. According to what he said, apart from the small memories he has of having been in the supposed Uber and in the Copec, he does not remember anything else.

When he got home, he lay down to rest. His wife, Kika Silva, said that “he doesn’t even remember when he opened the door to the house for me or when he spoke to my brother.” . He also supposedly got up in the middle of the night, but he doesn’t remember that either.

“I noticed it was strange when we were talking. I was like angry, also angry with my brother. He didn’t look like Gonzalo, he was heavy, unbearable and he’s not like that,” Silva said.

Even, At one point he passed out.

It is only when he wakes up that he realizes that they have drugged him and used his card: They stole a total of 400,000 Chilean pesos from him.

“Take care of yourself, don’t be like me who took this car. I think about what could have happened to Kika or my nieces. Please be careful,” he said. MON the actor. “I hope they can find these people who are so dangerous. Enough!” he also said in an interview with T13 .

According to the note of T13a few days before the event experienced by Gonzalo Valenzuela There are several reports of an exactly similar assault and scam.

That’s to say, Several criminals take advantage of the residents’ nocturnal leisure time to, in one way or another, drug them and then steal their money.

Valenzuela believes that the first time he was drugged was at the bar where he was hanging out with his friends and that later he was drugged more, with the bottle of water. That is why The establishment shared a statement in which it announces security measures, but it emphasizes that “we cannot solve a security problem on public roads. That is the power of the municipality and the carabinieri.

“We regret what happened to Gonzalo Valenzuela and we offer him all legal support” said Vitacura Mayor Camila Merino. “Today, the Eastern Prosecutor’s Office is focusing its investigations on people who were victims of credit card abuse after using it to pay for a taxi.”

The councilor called on “everyone to come forward. “We will be there to offer you legal support and also to provide you with all the information from the cameras, which are very useful to establish who the culprits are.”

Moreover, since the Vitacura Municipality they assured The third What They have strengthened inspections of vehicles such as taxis or those used for transport applications, in addition to meeting with different places to recommend that they maintain security cameras. in good condition inside and out, in order to have an additional means of proof and to discourage this type of crime.

They also asked that if anyone in the community feels they may have been drugged, feels threatened or is in danger, You can call the Public Safety team at 1403 for assistance.

To report this and other types of crimes, according to information from Chile is present, The person must report to the nearest Chilean Investigation Police (PDI) unit with their identity card.

On site, you must explain the reason for your visit, which will be to file a complaint. Immediately afterwards, you will provide the required information and sign the complaint, which It will be received by the police and notified to the Public Ministry, the institution responsible for determining the actions that will be followed subsequently.

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