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SAN ANTONIO — Erik Fernandez grew to become 17 years outdated on (*30*) 13. On that very same day, consistent with arrest data, he robbed 3 other people with a gun.
Authorities allege he additionally robbed two extra other people on (*30*) 21.
The dates are necessary, as a result of they imply Fernandez will probably be dealing with those accusations as an grownup. Police mentioned Wednesday Fernandez is suspected of getting dedicated, in all, round 28 crimes. He was once arrested on Tuesday.
“Those are 28 or 30 people that have been victimized by him alone,” mentioned Ben Drew, a detective with the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD). “Some of those might be multiple victims at a single robbery.”
Drew mentioned Fernandez was once a part of a group of six to 8 other people that experience dedicated equivalent crimes during the last 3 months in the Alamo City. The SAPD Robbery Task Force Unit were running the case for a minimum of that lengthy, spending numerous hours seeking to observe the ones folks down.
Drew mentioned lots of the group was once below 17, because of this they may well be charged as juveniles if arrested. That manner SAPD cannot free up the type of information they usually would.
The group is suspected of being answerable for greater than 50 other robberies around the town, a few of which had a couple of sufferers. Fortunately, Drew mentioned, SAPD has now arrested the entire suspected folks after taking Fernandez into custody this week.
He mentioned they tied the crimes in combination via a standout element: The group would all the time goal running folks in the early-morning hours.
“The common method was to target people early in the morning between 5 and 7 a.m.,” the detective mentioned. “People like contractors, restaurant workers and landscapers who were up early and getting themselves ready, having breakfast. There were workers waiting for their morning ride to work. They were driven up on, had guns put in their face, and had their phones, wallets, jewelry taken.”
KENS 5 discovered a lot of the ones robberies opened up close to South Zarzamora Street, however SAPD mentioned the group additionally dedicated crimes at the south facet and across the north a part of Loop 410. They mentioned some other people had been robbed in their cars and even at their puts of labor.
Drew mentioned SAPD reviewed digicam photos and adopted leads on stolen cars to trace the suspected robbers down. He additionally mentioned Fernandez endured to rob other people after different folks in the group were arrested.
He mentioned it is a aid to in spite of everything have the entire suspected group arrested.
“Our pleasure comes from being able to work with the victims, being able to let them know, ‘Hey, this person who has victimized your, injured you, shot you, left you traumatized is now locked up.’ That’s where most of our gratification comes from: knowing that we have done a good job for the people we work for and we were able to lock that person up,” Drew mentioned. “The hardworking everyday people that are up early in the morning are safer because he and his co-actors have been arrested.”
Drew additionally mentioned SAPD was once in a position to be triumphant in the investigation since the sufferers in most of the cases labored with them to handle the crimes.
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