The National Police and the Civil Guard have dismantled a criminal group dedicated to robberies with force in hotel establishments in Cantabria, a joint operation that has involved the arrest of three people and the clarification of 45 robberies.
The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, reported on Wednesday of this important joint operation of the National Police and the Civil Guard and has done so accompanied by the commanders of both bodies, the Superior Chief of Police, Carmen Martínez, and the Colonel Chief of the Civil Guard, Antonio Orantos.
Quiñones has detailed that this criminal group made up of three males, aged 48, 26 and 22 years and native to Moldova and Romania, was settled in the towns of La Penilla de Cayón and Revilla de Camargo. The three men were arrested after a robbery at a Soto de la Marina facility and were sentenced to prison after being brought before a court.
During the investigations carried out by the National Police and the Civil Guard, the delegate said that it was possible to verify that these people neutralized the protection and alarm systems of the establishments and, “in little more than two minutes, they removed or forced with great speed the self-collection boxes or the armored cash registers, taking the money from them.”
Quiñones explained that “this very rapid way of acting complicated the reaction of the service patrols of the State Security Forces and Corps.” In addition to the speed, he has detailed that the members of the group “always acted with their faces covered and left the vehicle with which they moved several kilometers, in order to avoid being detected in their flight”.
The delegate has referred to other evidence obtained by the operative groups of both the National Police and the Civil Guard, such as that the members of this criminal group “did not act randomly but carried out studies of the hotel establishments where they intended to steal, checking the security measures they had, studying their location and trying to know the type of registration machine they had, as well as all the escape routes.”
Also, he added, the group worked with “a hierarchy” since each member had specific missions.
ARRESTS
Given the well-founded suspicion that this group was going to eat a new robbery, and in a coordinated way between the police and the Civil Guard, the Government delegate has reported that in the early morning of March 23, an operation was arranged that ended with the arrest of the three members of the group, after committing a robbery in a Soto de la Marina establishment.
In the subsequent searches of both the vehicle and the homes in the Penilla de Cayón and Revilla de Camargo, the State Security Forces intervened about 3,000 euros in banknotes and abundant coins, part of which came from the latest theft.
Likewise, a significant number of tools were seized for the commission of these thefts, such as radials, shears, sledgehammer, drill, etc., portable transmission systems, documentation with annotations of possible objectives, as well as other evidence for the clarification of the thefts.
These arrests have shed light on a total of 45 robberies committed in hotel establishments in Santander, Torrelavega, Camargo, Hoznayo, Noja, Isla, Suances, Puente Arce, Escalante, Selaya and Vega de Pas, among other locations.
This operation has been carried out by agents of the specialized robbery group of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of the Higher Police Headquarters of Cantabria, and by members of the Civil Guard belonging to the Judicial Police Team of Santoña and the Main Post of Camargo.
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