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Those arrested have numerous precedents for committing similar crimes

They have recovered 200 kilos of oranges intended to subtract

The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia has developed an investigation, part of the 'Plan against agricultural and livestock subtractions', which has led to the arrest in flagrante of the three members of an instant criminal group after committing a robbery in a farm in the hamlet of Pozo Estrecho Cartagena, a performance in which 200 kilograms of oranges were also recovered.

Team Policemen ROCK (fighting equipment Theft in the field) began the investigation into crimes committed in several farms in the region of Campo de Cartagena, which had been stolen citrus, mainly oranges.

The first investigation led to evidence that after the authorship of the investigated robberies a group of people who committed crimes during the night was using force against fences and access to the farms and had great mobility, so the Civil Guard established a monitoring device during the hours that used to be committed robberies and in the most vulnerable areas to suffer this type of crime.

One of these devices paid off when agents detected that one of the farms on which the surveillance was being assaulted was done, so a device siege and subsequent monitoring culminating in the location and arrest of the three members developed the criminal group in Cartagena.

Those arrested at the time of the arrest were seized shears, used to commit robberies, 200 kilograms of oranges stolen moments before and several textile bags used to transport citrus misappropriated.

Researchers have found that the now detained citrus subtracted in order to sell them at flea markets illegally hawking and businesses in the region.

The Spaniards arrested, aged between 27 and 41 years, residents of Cartagena and numerous precedents for similar offenses, the effects seized and the proceedings initiated have been made available to the Magistrate's Court in Cartagena (Murcia).

Source: Ministerio del Interior