Óscar Piñón was not an easy cop. He was not when he was on the front line, nor was he in exile that Internal Affairs imposed on him a year ago when he was linked to trafficking pink cocaine in A Coruña, his place of residence.
Last Tuesday, they told him that they were moving him to the second activity because his psychiatric conditions did not advise him to be active.
Piñón then decided to sign a wild exit. That same morning, he provoked a 48-shot scuffle before falling dead at a Burgos gas station after stealing a weapon from a colleague from the A Coruña Police Station hours earlier.
On that tour, aboard a stolen vehicle, he did not hesitate to shoot everyone who got in his way. No one knows where he was going or what he intended with a trip that began Tuesday afternoon.
Piñón was summoned to the Lonzas Police Station (A Coruña) where he was assigned. He worked in the Citizen Security Brigade and was also often in charge of the cells. They informed him of the decision to relegate him to second activity due to his psychological state and he did not accept it.
The agent had been on leave since the Internal Affairs investigation – which until now had not yielded solid conclusions about his participation in the drug trafficking network beyond his alleged consumption – and went to carry out what his superiors described as a ” administrative process”.
Once at the police station, the afternoon turned bad for Piñón. He not only did not digest that they separated him, but he insistently claimed his plate, as EL MUNDO has learned.
When he did not obtain it, “he flew into a rage,” sources of the investigation specify. Later, she went to the locker room where he has his locker and, the same sources continue, he tried to force those of his colleagues until he managed to open one. He stole the service weapon of one of his colleagues and rushed out of the police station.
When this agent noticed the theft of his pistol, he gave the notice convinced that Piñón had been the colleague who had taken it. All the alarms then went off given the agent’s state of excitement moments before at the police station and his behavior in recent times.
With the certainty that Piñón had taken the weapon, an extensive search device was then launched to locate it. A car managed to find him. Follow-up started. Piñón was advancing at great speed. It was 4:00 a.m. Upon arriving at the entrance to Villagonzalo Pedernales (Burgos), they notified the Civil Guard to request support. They wanted to avoid putting public safety at risk, aware of the state of nervousness of his partner.
The agents intercepted him on the N-231 and stopped him at the Tardajos roundabout. Using a megaphone, a patrol from the Armed Institute asks him to stop and get out of the car.
Óscar Piñón came out with the weapon in his hand and, according to the same sources, he fired up to four shots. The agents took cover, at which time the policeman took the opportunity to return to his car and flee. He took refuge in a gas station on the way out of town. Two National Police patrols were waiting for him, which intercepted his vehicle, hitting him.
Far from being intimidated, Piñón got out of the car with his pistol in his hand and, as explained by the same sources consulted, he pointed a gun at one of the Civil Guard agents. It was then that the patrols of the Armed Institute and the National Police that were at the gas station opened fire on him.
One of the bullets, which was not fatal, hit him and he fell to the ground. However, sources of the investigation continue, he got up and wanted to shoot the same agent again, at which point he fell down. The shooting between Piñón and the rest of the agents was so intense that up to 48 bullets were counted.
Óscar Piñón’s descent into hell began a year ago, when his own colleagues arrested him for his links to a small-scale pink cocaine trafficking plot. There were five people arrested. All of them went to prison and the reason why he did not do so is that the investigators did not find narcotic substances in the house that he shared with his father.
In that operation, the agents seized 161 grams of cocaine, 18 ecstasy pills, pink and crystal cocaine, among other substances that are being analyzed. On another floor, they found drug measurement tools and elements to mix it, detail the same sources consulted.
Apparently, Piñón was a consumer of narcotic substances that he mixed with alcohol. Weeks before his gun was taken away, he had lost his police badge in a village bar. A citizen found her and delivered her to the police station. They no longer returned it to him because he was removed from his post due to his erratic behavior.
“There has been a serious risk to the lives of the agents, but being in charge of the State Security Forces and Corps in the province, I am pleased that there have been no regrets about any injuries among the members of the operation,” the officer acknowledged yesterday. Government sub-delegate in Burgos, Pedro de la Fuente, who described what happened as a “tragic event because it involves the loss of a life.” Regarding the development of the events, the subdelegate did point out that the deceased agent was on leave and “immersed in a drug trafficking issue, hence everything has precipitated because the last bars did not bode well.”
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