Alicante Civil Guards arrested a person who was traveling in a stolen vehicle in Torrevieja and had escaped a breathalyzer check. The chase lasted more than 20 minutes. The detainee did not hesitate to cross roundabouts and drive long distances in the opposite direction, which seriously endangered the safety of all road users. After he was caught, he tried to flee on foot, even wounding one of the agents.
A tourist escaped at high speed from the breathalyzer check deployed by members of the Torrevieja Civil Guard Traffic Detachment on N-332. At the height of one of the agents, the vehicle suddenly accelerated as it turned towards the device at around 6:50 am.
Agents began to track down the driver, who quickly fled. For more than 20 minutes, the car fled at high speed, in a forbidden direction and taking a detour through the roundabouts it found on its way, both in the urban area of the city and along the national highway that crossed it. .
Therefore, by ignoring all police signals telling him to stop the march, he seriously risked his own safety and the safety of other users, including the agents themselves.
However, always ensuring that they did not pose greater risks than they were faced with, the agents managed to apprehend the criminal at the 50,300 kilometer point, on a dead-end street in Torrevieja, near the N-322, when they saw him struggling. Stop
While following up, agents confirmed that he was involved in an accident, including a leak, in Orihuela that same day.
When they managed to stop the car, the driver realized that he was cornered and left the car in the middle of the street and fled the scene on foot, risking other vehicles on the same road.
When caught by the agents, he even tried to escape with a fight, inflicting minor injuries on one of them. After being subdued, he was arrested on the spot, confirmed to be a 21-year-old man with multiple police records of crimes against property.
Later, a search was conducted in the vehicle, in which a knife, several grams of marijuana and various jewels of dubious origin were hidden. After the relevant steps, it was determined that the jewels found were stolen from inside a house in Orihuela at dawn on the same day, and then the keys of the vehicle used by the criminal were also stolen.
While the owner of the house and the stolen vehicle were on vacation in Sweden, the agents did not notice the thefts until they called me over.
A criminal complaint was filed against the detainee, in addition to two offenses against road safety, one for clearly reckless driving and the other for driving a motor vehicle without a license, as well as serious disobedience to the authority and theft. and driving theft and another forced robbery in the home.
The detainee was placed at the disposal of the Torrevieja Guard and Instruction Court, which ordered his release with precautionary measures.