Have been clarified so far three robberies committed in Santomera.
The Civil Guard has developed an operation that has led to the arrest of a person who allegedly was engaged in committing robbery with violence and intimidation in commercial establishments located in the town of Santomera using for it a weapon, accusing him until authorship three robberies.
La Guardia Civil investigations began early in the month of March to be aware of the commission of a spate of robberies with violence and intimidation in commercial establishments generating a great social alarm in the area and population.
In the first investigations agents were able to determine that the offenses were made with a similar modus operandi and matched the physical description of the assailant.
Modus operandi
The alleged author conducted a thorough review of its objectives, choosing business premises by the security establishment, the frequency of clients and the total number of employees.
Preferred those who were released by the female workforce in order to exert more violence and get less resistance in their performance.
After fixing the establishment was headed to the same acting close to closing time and when there was no customers inside the establishment.
Once there, he entered the shop carrying a knife and covered with a ski mask and a hooded sweatshirt to conceal his identity and intimidate the clerks wielding a large knife requesting the collection of the box.
Result of research carried out by agents and devices practiced during the past few days were located on the alleged perpetrator Santomera ajmb identified as 25-year-old neighbor of Santomera currently performing the same detention.
Following the arrest began the process of analysis that has been determined that this person is the alleged author of three crimes in Santomera stores during the month of March and continuing investigations to determine if it is also the author of several robbery by the method of "pull" committed in the same locality.
The detainee and the proceedings initiated have been made available to the Court of Instruction Number Four of Murcia, which has exercised the judicial management of this operation.
Source: Ministerio del Interior