Escaped convicts three days kept at bay Vladivostok – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, March 26 – RIA Novosti. The history of the accused in the purchase and possession of drug thrice convicted recidivist disabled Vladimir Bespalov, shot the guards and hide themselves in the urban development of Vladivostok, ended in the tradition of the prison lyrics: after two days of care from the pursuit of the fugitive police found in the entrance of the high-rise, but he managed to shoot himself.

Many of the residents of Vladivostok seriously the threat from were released the violent recidivist – on social networks rose wave of reports concerned citizens, and someone even put together, despite the protests of the police, a group of volunteers to search for the perpetrator.

Ready for the prison story lyrics

The attack on the convoy took place on Tuesday, when the paddy wagon drove out of the courthouse in jail two defendants in the case of the purchase, possession and sale of drugs. For 40-year-old Bespalov it was not the first case, a drug-related from his three previous convictions, one was just under “drug trafficking.” Others – insulting a government official and causing violence.

Despite the disability and, as a consequence, lameness (one leg amputated below the knee and replaced with a prosthesis), Bespalov managed to acquire weapons of the guards and shoot them – one died, the other with wounds delivered to the hospital. Then we only know about the actions Bespalov, what happened to the second escorted to jail, not yet reported.

Having escaped from the paddy wagon, the offender acted confidently and firmly. On the scene of the murder escaped, broke into the shuttle bus and threatened the driver, and then broke into one of the apartments Vladivostok and actually took hostage a Woman. Stealing money in the apartment and men’s clothing, which immediately and changed clothes, left with a girl trapped in another quarter of the city, but the prisoner escaped.

After the next attack, on the second day Bespalov “lay down on the bottom” and for a long time “does not light.” Criminal search area expanded to all of Primorsky Krai, while the Interior Ministry said that it will likely not leave the limits of Vladivostok. And so it proved.

Only on the third day of searching, it became known that the recidivist found alive but take it failed. Tried to detain the fugitive in the stairwell of an apartment house, but it is as long as employees rose to 12 floor, apparently realized that came after him, and managed to shoot himself in the head.

According to the seaside cupola MIA, Bespalov was in its death throes, and arrived at the scene ambulance could not save him – as they say in such cases, physicians, injuries were incompatible with life.

Catch a criminal activity helped local residents

vladivostoktsy vividly responded to the story with an escaped convict – the theme has become one of the major social networking, people shared the orientation on the fugitive and his special signs, has been declared a set of the group to find the offender by volunteers.

At the police to the idea of ​​civil activists seek an experienced recidivist independently treated not merely skeptical, and abhorrence. “The offender is armed and dangerous,” – warned in AMIA citizens through local and national media.

At the same set of active citizens still have time to declare and a small group of volunteers recruited. The meeting was scheduled for Wednesday night – the beginning whether the group independent searches, is unknown.

As a result, the activity of the tenants was still useful to the police and in general all citizens and fatal for recidivist. Locals told police they saw a man resembling the wanted, and then began a raid in a house where eventually found Bespalov already hit in the head with a weapon lying next to suicide – a gun.