The police and the investigative committee officially announced the details of the arrest of a 14-year-old boy, whose gang was a "nightmare" in one of the Irkutsk districts. He was arrested for blackmail and robbery. As the investigation determined, in September of this year, a young racketeer began blackmailing a 16-year-old acquaintance, threatening to send photos defaming him, and demanding 20 thousand rubles for silence, and later threatened the victim with physical violence and simply took the smartphone from him. In addition, at the moment the court is already considering another criminal case against the same defendant - for robbery against schoolchildren and taking money from them near one of the shopping centers of Irkutsk. Now the guy has been officially charged with extortion and robbery. The security forces point out that the boy has been on their radar for a long time: he is registered in the PDN, characterized in a very negative way everywhere, and at the beginning of the year he was put in a detention center for juvenile offenders. After studying all the circumstances, the court stated in its ruling that the defendant has a "persistent criminal personality. " The court agreed with the investigators that while he remains free, the guy could escape or continue to put pressure on the victims, so he will spend the next two months behind bars. We will remind you that yesterday the Irkutsk media told a story about a youth gang that keeps children in fear in the Primorsky microdistrict. They extorted money and beat their peers. After the announcements there was a lightning fast response from the security forces.