The National Police has arrested a 50-year-old man as alleged responsible for 14 robberies with violence and intimidation that occurred last October in the Madrid town of Alcobendas.

He threatened his victims, always women and in most cases of advanced age, with a knife that he did not hesitate to use in case they did not give him the money. "Give me the money or I crack you , " he commanded women in every assault. Hours after his last misdeeds, the agents managed to stop him and found that he committed three robberies in a row on the same day.

The investigation began in the middle of last October following several complaints in which those affected said they had been victims of robberies with violence by a man carrying a knife. The agents, after analyzing all the information, concluded that it was the same person , a middle-aged man who showing a knife or a razor threatened to "crack" the victims if they did not give him the money.

He always chose women, especially the elderly, and he did not hesitate to use violence in case they did not give him the money. Among them was a pregnant woman in an advanced state of pregnancy that had to be attended by health personnel after suffering the robbery, as well as another affected woman who was injured with the knife .

A few days after the investigation began, the agents achieved the arrest of this individual on the 24th after having carried out their last two assaults. They also found that it was the alleged perpetrator of 14 robberies with violence and intimidation in just one week and that he even committed three of those robberies in a row. Investigators made a search at their home where they found the knife he had allegedly used as well as clothing and cash.

Once he was made available to the judicial authority, the judge decreed his immediate imprisonment . He had several police records.

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