Law enforcement officers have arrested three skinheads on suspicion of robbing a young man earlier this year, the State Police said.
In February this year, a minor approached the State Police, reporting a robbery about a month earlier on Merķeļa Street in Rīga. During the investigation, officers of the Rīga Regional Directorate of the State Police found out that on 8 January, the young man was approached in the street by two unknown men belonging to the skinhead subculture. They expressed their dislike that he was wearing white shoelaces. Another person as the leader of the skinhead subculture group watched the conversation on a video call, threatening and inciting to commit a robbery.
In cooperation with the State Security Service, police officers identified and arrested all three alleged perpetrators.
The suspects were born in 2006, 2007 and 2008. One of them had already been in the eyes of law enforcement officers. Police officers carried out urgent searches at the residences of two of the detainees.
During the pre-trial investigation, two of the three young men were found to be suspects of robbery committed by a group of persons by prior agreement. The third detainee was found to be a suspect for inciting a group of persons to commit a robbery.
The suspects can be sentenced to up to eight years’ imprisonment with confiscation of property and probation supervision for up to three years.
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