A pair of women were convicted of planning to attack one of their boyfriends and his friend for a robbery at Pinheira Beach in Palos. Besides them, two men were also convicted of terrorizing the victims to rob them.

Praia da Pinheira is one of the cities with the best ratings from travellers. Photo: Leo Munoz/ND

According to the TJSC (Santa Catarina Court), the coup took place on September 4, 2021. On Saturday evening, one of the women invited her boyfriend to spend the weekend at his family’s beach house in Praia da Pain.

She even agreed to take a friend and for him to take a friend, assuming that her friend was interested in the guest.

While the four were in the house, around 11:30 p.m., they were surprised by four men who grabbed the group and tied the victims with telephone cables and pieces of cloth.

They were threatened with firearms and a scythe. In addition, the criminals hit the victims in the head with the handle of a hoe, and also sprayed fire at their legs and head using a lighter and repellent.

Women are considered “kidnapped” and victims are robbed of everything after being scammed

The criminals took cell phones, sneakers, a jacket, a hookah, watches, money, debit cards and the car of one of the young men. Moreover, both women were found to have been “kidnapped” as part of the scam.

However, the two did not report the robbery and were found the next day while returning from a luau with one of the perpetrators. The court analyzed the correspondence and photographs and came to the conclusion that the women helped in the robbery.

The incident occurred at home on Pinheira beach – Photo: Mauro Goulart/Divulgação/ND

The UK court sentenced four criminals to 49 years in prison

The investigation identified only two of the four men. One of them was sentenced to 14 years, six months and 19 days of imprisonment, the other – to 10 years, eight months and 10 days of imprisonment.

For the coup, the women were sentenced to 12 years, five months and 21 days in prison each. The sentences of the four criminals combined amount to 49 years of imprisonment in the initially closed regime.