Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:44 UTC
The situation came to light when the bus scraped another vehicle belonging to the same company
A man was detained on Sunday in the western part of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area after driving a city bus for several kilometres, having taken it without authorisation from a depot, following the line's regular route and picking up passengers at stops.
The episode began at around 6:30am at the depot operated by Empresa 216 in Pontevedra, in the district of Merlo. According to investigators' reconstruction, the man boarded a vehicle that was parked there and drove it away. He covered Pontevedra and central Morón, two districts of greater Buenos Aires, keeping to the established route and stopping to let passengers board, none of whom noticed anything irregular. He was wearing a shirt bearing the company logo.
The situation came to light when the bus scraped another vehicle belonging to the same company. Its driver alerted colleagues and, once it was confirmed the unit had left the depot without its assigned driver, a union representative filed a theft report at the police station.
