This Friday, the Investigative Police (PDI) arrested a 32-year-old Haitian national accused of multiple crimes, including kidnapping, sexual abuse, and rape, committed in the city of Temuco, in the La Araucanía Region, and affecting three victims. The operation was carried out by detectives from the Police Investigations Brigade (BIPE) specialized in kidnappings from that city, in coordination with the Public Prosecutor's Office. Subprefect Mauricio Angulo, head of the Southern Macrozone Prefecture, stated that "the arrest of a foreign citizen was achieved, who was charged with the crimes of kidnapping, rape, and sexual abuse." The authority detailed that the investigation managed to determine the criminal's modus operandi, which involved luring his victims through work on transportation applications, where he falsified his identity in order to register and thus provide the service to passengers. "He would go to the central streets of Temuco, where he would spot women who were indeed in a somewhat more vulnerable condition because they were coming out of nightclubs, and due to their intoxicated state, they became highly vulnerable," Angulo added. After that, the accused would transport the women to different points in the regional capital, where he would proceed to abuse them. The PDI stated that the existence of more victims is not ruled out and asked potential victims to file the corresponding complaint. In turn, the acting prosecutor of Temuco, Daniela Ellenberg, stated that the man was formally charged with the aforementioned crimes against three adult victims. "It was determined that the accused always had the same modus operandi: he worked in the early morning hours, picked up the victims in those circumstances, when the victims requested rides, and once in the car, the accused took advantage of different situations to carry out these behaviors," Ellenberg added. Among the intrusive measures that allowed the criminal to be apprehended were GPS tracking and telephone interception of his numbers, which made it possible to identify the route the man took when picked up by the women. The man was considered a danger to the safety of society and of the victims because he knew their addresses, so pretrial detention was ordered for the duration of the three-month investigation. Prosecutor Ellenberg made a special call to the community to verify the information of transportation services provided through applications and to check that the driver's photo and the vehicle's license plate match, as well as to share their location in real time.