Agents from the Civil Guard’s Roca team – the unit dedicated to rural robberies – have 11 people arrested this Wednesday linked to a series of thefts of watermelons and melons in various areas of Aljarafe. This operation is part of an investigation that began on June 15 and which resulted in the recovery of 2,200 kilos of fruit.
The detainees are linked to five robbery offences in the cities of Villamanrique de la Condesa and AznalcázarThe arrests took place on different days, but all coincided with the harvesting campaign for the said fruits.
First, the agents identified and detained five people who were linked to robberies with force in several properties in the municipality of Villamanrique. The second operation resulted in the arrest of three others people for the same reasons, and eventually they stopped three others more suspected thieves.
Thanks to all this research, it has been possible to clarify a total of Five violent robberies on farms Aljarafe. Agents from the Roca team intervened, as well as the Citizen Security Unit of the Seville Command and the Civil Guard of the affected municipalities.
To face this situation, the Civil Guard unit of Roca also needed the help of rural guards, private security and farmers themselvesPolice sources have assured on other occasions that their collaboration is essential to combat robberies in the countryside.
More thefts in the Seville countryside
Thefts in the countryside have been rampant in Seville in recent months. On September 2, the Roca team He caught seven people red-handed who tried to steal olives on the first day of greening.
On this occasion only a woman was arrested who led a team of six workers, against whom an investigation was opened. The arrested person claimed that all of them had been hired by another neighbor who sent third parties to collect olives in abandoned or disused fields, a false story, according to sources from the Armed Institute.
