A criminal group was dismantled by the Civil Guard of the Guadalajara Command in the operation “Monopoly”.
The organization was very active and was dedicated to the theft of goods from trucks in Madrid, BurgosZaragoza, Toledo, Cáceres, Gipuzkoa and Guadalajara.
According to sources from the Government Sub-delegation, 36 offenses were clarified and three tractors and three semi-trailers were recovered.
This operation began last February, after the commission of a theft with intimidation of a truck tractor, committed in the Cantos Blancos industrial zone, in the municipality of Cabanillas del Campo.
After the investigations carried out, it was possible to clarify that the alleged perpetrators of the thefts were part of a group organized and hierarchical criminal groupin which each member had a perfectly defined role.
The “leader” assigned and organized the tasks, to which was added a surveillance team which supervised the industrial zones and observed the movements and activity of the place, in addition to selecting the objective.
Finally, there was the “response team” responsible for carrying out the thefts.
On several occasions they stole the entire articulated assembly, on other occasions a tractor head was stolen from a different location and transported to the chosen trailer, pretending to carry out a tractor operation. hitch as if it were a transport professional.
For each action, numerous security measures have been taken, in order to avoid being discovered, in turn, made GPS devices useless vehicles and moved “escorted” with a shuttle car which drove in front of the truck to warn of a possible police check.
Later they tried to sell the goods and abandon the truck in another industrial zone.
The stolen items were very varied, ranging from household appliances to clothing, including One of the most notable events was the forceful robbery committed in the town of Milagros, Burgos..
In this criminal act, the value of the textile goods amounted to 700,000 euros.
Thanks to this operation, the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard of Guadalajara managed to dismantle a very active criminal group based in the Community of Madrid.
He was reached arrest 6 people and investigate four othersincluding eight of Spanish nationality and two Moroccans, aged between 20 and 50.
Those who are accused of the crimes of belonging to a criminal group, theft with force, theft with violence or intimidation, damage, theft, falsification of public documents and theft or theft of use of vehicles.
