The agents have recovered 243,000 euros in cash
The Civil Guard has dismantled a gang of robbers dedicated to very violent robberies in Tenerifein which they pretended to be agents of the armed institute to gain the trust of the victims.
In total, four people have been arrested and as many others are being investigated, who are accused of crimes of robbery with violence, illegal detention, trespassing and usurpation of public functions.
The Civil Guard has recovered more than 240,000 euros supposedly from these robberies, it details in a statement.
The investigation began at the beginning of this year after a robbery with violence committed in a prestigious company located in the south of Tenerife, where the robbers arrived at gagging and beating victims to get the button.
The detainees had a great preparation, studying the assault in detail and executing it with surprising speed, the Civil Guard sources point out.
They also immediately incorporated the stolen money into the legal circuit, for which they had a stable structure of collaborators with whom they acquired all kinds of goods.
In a robbery carried out in the town of Abades (Arico), the perpetrators, after identifying themselves as civil guards, stopped a worker in charge of transporting cash. The victim was handcuffed and the thieves fled with the money.
During the arrests, the assailants tried to flee and reached barricade yourself in a house alien
The police device has ended with the arrest of the four suspects and the recovery of 243,000 euros in cash, corresponding to the total amount stolen according to the affected entity.
This operation concludes with the investigation of the eight members of the organization, all of them residents in Tenerife, the recovery of all the stolen money and the intervention of seven vehicles, as well as identification vests, masks and caps with anagrams of the Civil Guard. L
The investigation has been carried out by agents of the Civil Guard belonging to the team of crimes against property of the organic unit of judicial police of the Command of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, under the direction of the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 1 of Gmar and with the coordination of the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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