Police arrested a 32-year-old man wanted since August in a knifepoint robbery along the Condado Lagoon bike path that left a 67-year-old man stabbed.
Police arrested Luis A. Colón Velázquez, 32, of San Juan, this week on a warrant issued in absentia by San Juan Judge Lisa M. Durán Ortiz. Colón Velázquez faces robbery and weapons charges connected to an Aug. 7 incident on Avenida Baldorioty de Castro near Condado Lagoon.
According to the police investigation, Colón Velázquez used a knife to take a Scattante XRL 270 bicycle, valued at $600, from the 67-year-old victim. The man was cut on his right thigh during a struggle.
Durán Ortiz set bail at $70,000. Colón Velázquez didn’t post it and was jailed in Bayamón pending a preliminary hearing.
Part of a wider pattern
The case is one of several Condado Daily traced back to the same San Juan police precinct in an Aug. 25 report on thefts and robberies targeting tourists, short-term-rental guests and residents in Condado and Santurce.
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Sources: El Nuevo Día
