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The suspect spent nine and a half years behind bars for causing fatal bodily injuries and two robberies. He is now charged with theft and robbery. For the crimes, he faces up to fifteen years in prison with confiscation of property.
The crimes occurred in the spring during the evening in the Khadzhibeyskyi district of Odesa.
The investigation established: spotting a 61-year-old city resident holding a leather bag in Mark Twain Park, the perpetrator decided to seize his valuable property. The offender approached the passerby from behind, struck him on the back of the head, and when the victim fell — struck him several more times, took the bag and fled.
The next day the offender attacked a 69-year-old resident of Odesa in a similar way on Ivana and Yuri Lyp Street. The suspect brutally beat the man until he lost consciousness and took his wallet.
The perpetrator's loot included cash, bank cards and the victims’ documents. The men suffered losses totaling more than five thousand hryvnias.
They also had to seek medical assistance. Doctors diagnosed the younger Odesa resident with multiple abrasions on his body, and the older man with a closed fracture of the nasal bones, bruises and abrasions.
Operatives from Police Department No. 1 of the Odesa District Police Directorate No. 1 identified and located the attacker soon after he committed the second crime.
Investigators detained the suspect in accordance with procedural law. As physical evidence, police seized some of the victims’ belongings. Some property was returned to them, and other items were placed under arrest.
At the police’s request, the court ordered pretrial detention for the offender without the right to post bail.
As investigator Valeriia Dima reported, the suspect had previously been on law enforcement’s radar for causing severe bodily injuries that led to the death of a victim, and for two armed robberies. For those offenses he spent 9,6 years behind bars, and a week after his release from imprisonment he committed new crimes. Based on a sufficient amount of evidence gathered by the police, the perpetrator was charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
part 4 of article 186 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – for the open theft of another person’s property, that is, robbery, combined with violence that is not dangerous to the life or health of the victim, committed under martial law, in particular repeatedly;
part 4 of article 187 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – for robbery combined with violence dangerous to the life or health of the person who was attacked, by a person who previously committed robbery, under martial law, committed repeatedly.
According to current legislation, the man faces up to fifteen years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
The indictment has been sent to court. The Khadzhibeyskyi District Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Odesa, under whose procedural supervision the investigation was conducted, will present the prosecution in court.
Odesa District Police Directorate No. 1
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