An eighth-grader with a knife robbed a store and office of microloans in the Leningrad region

In the Leningrad region, an eighth-grader, threatening with a knife, robbed a store and office of microloans. At the moment, the student has been detained. This was announced on March 13 by a source of Izvestia.

It is specified that the incidents occurred on the evening of March 12 in the city of Kingisepp. A young man in a mask entered the office of microloans, threatening an employee with a knife, and took 33 thousand rubles from the safe.

"Then, with a knife in his hand, he ran into the store at 15E Bolshoy Boulevard, shouted "robbery" and, in the presence of two sellers, took 5,000 rubles from the cash register," the source said.

A criminal case has been opened against the minor under Part 2 of Article 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Robbery committed with the use of weapons").

On January 10, in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg, a man robbed an apartment under the pretext of buying a laptop. Entering the room, the attacker used physical force, stole 65 thousand rubles from the chest of drawers and disappeared. A few days later, the suspect was detained in the Kirovsky district, and a criminal case was opened.