an investigation Civil Guard Due to the theft of vehicle catalysts in Marina Alta, it also allowed the liquidation of a group dedicated to robbery in homes, bars and restaurants. Valencian Communitywhere did he get picking machines entertainment and tobacco. During the operation, two people were arrested in El Verger and one in Sabiñánigo (Huesca). The Civil Guard clarified the theft of 23 catalysts and two home robberies committed by one of the detainees.
HE ROCA team of the Calp Civil Guard The investigation began after an increase in catalyst thefts was detected at Marina Alta last October. The agents, who detected a vehicle used in the robberies, reached a Romanian citizen residing in Oliva and having a criminal record. He specialized in removing catalytic converters from cars and worked at night. Public parking lots in Marina Alta.
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The Civil Guard also contacted him. Two robberies in Xàbia homes He learned that he had committed crimes in parallel with two other Romanians, who had settled in Alicante and formed a criminal group specializing in the collection of amusement machines or tobacco vending machines in hotel establishments.
Investigators accuse them of two robberies Arenales del Sol restaurant in Elche and in the municipality of Daimús, Valencia.
The arrests were made after it was discovered on February 9 that one of them was trying to leave the country, so the Civil Guards were mobilized and were able to arrest him. a few kilometers from the French border, in Sabinanigo (Huesca). The next day they arrested two more people involved in El Verger.