The third section of the Provincial Court of Córdoba places three accused of enter by force from a used car dealership in the capital Córdoba to steal a car and a van later used to commit other crimes, replace their license plates and pulverize your insides with a fire extinguisher to cover the traces.
The case dates back to 2018 when, according to the description of the prosecution to which ABC had access, the three defendants, after agreeing to commit the theft, presented themselves at the premises of a company selling used vehicles in the city. . capital. After having pierced the sheet metal of a side door on its perimeter, with a shear or similar, the three accused managed to penetrate inside the ship, which was then closed to the public, and managed to deactivate the alarm system. alarm.
Then, they searched the different rooms looking for valuables, seizing 1,700 euros which were in one of the offices. In addition to cause damage In some stored vehicles they also seized three sets of keys before stealing a car, worth 7,500 euros, and a van worth 2,200 euros, both belonging to the company, with which they left the place.
According to the prosecution, the license plates of the two vehicles were replaced by different plates and, in the case of the van, the defendants left it abandoned in a motorway service lane in the vicinity of Fernán Núñez being located by the Civil Guard and returned to its owner. In order to eliminate the fingerprints capable of allowing their identification, the accused emptied the contents of a extinguisher.
Likewise, the stolen car It was used by the defendants to commit new thefts – which are not the subject of this criminal case – and was able to be located by the National Police and returned to its legitimate owners.
The three accused are confronted heavy prison sentences – 17 years and three months in total – accused of several crimes of violent theft with the aggravating circumstance of recidivism among the three accused and the offenses of falsification of an official document (change of registration plates).
Documentary falsification
The public prosecutor is asking for sentences for the first of the accused which amount to five years and nine months in prison as well as a fine of nine months at the rate of ten euros per day, while for the two other defendants he requests sentences of four years and six months in prison for each for the crime of theft with force in the things and to the sentences of one year and nine months of additional prison for the offense of falsification of documents, as well as to a fine of nine months of ten euros per day.
