Tourists by day and thieves by night. Although it was common to see them in the morning on the beach and in the evening in the leisure areas of Malaga, in reality they were hiding their membership in a criminal gang specializing in house thefts. Today the national police arrested three of them for his alleged involvement in more than thirty thefts from houses in Malaga.
The investigation began last summer following several complaints regarding thefts in the eastern area of the capital of Malaga, the perpetrators of which They took “strong precautions” to avoid detectionas reported this Friday by the Police in a press release.
The searches took place early in the night, in houses whose structure had been surrounding wall near an open field. According to the investigations, the perpetrators were always two people masked and dressed They wore dark clothing, hiking shoes and a backpack.who accessed houses by taking ladders, using doors and windows and, on occasion, clashed with their inhabitants, whom they avoided by fleeing. In other words, they did not resort to violence during their thefts.
After a thorough investigation, officers determined that A man was responsible for transporting the thieves in a vehiclewhich he left on the edge of the fields but with access to the A-7 highway, and after the thefts he picked them up with another car.
Campaigns
The investigation determined that they all constituted a roving cell belonging to a criminal organization of Albanian nationality which acquired strategic settlements in the Axarquía region to carry out “temporary criminal campaigns” lasting two to three weeks. In other words, they went to the province of Malaga just to earn money for a few days from these flights.
Among the security measures adopted by network members were the use of false documents to rent vehicles and holiday accommodation, constant changes of vehicles, as well as the acquisition of telephone lines and terminals with fictitious identities.
After your visits to beaches and nightclubs, They were traveling by car to a plot of land in the middle of the bush. There, the perpetrators dressed up in the “robbery kit” – consisting of clothes, flashlights, phones and tools – that they had previously hidden.
This criminal group mainly operated in urbanizations located in the eastern area of Malagabut also to a lesser extent in the cities of Mijas, Vélez-Málaga, Torremolinos and Alhaurín de la Torre.
During a search carried out in a town of the Axarquiathe Police intervened various jewelry buried in the property, some effects reported as stolen, money and opening tools, in addition to the backpack that would have been used to commit the thefts.
The three detainees were placed at the disposal of the judicial authority, which ordered their provisional arrest.
