A two-day butron: the millionaire Los Dalton robbery from a Marbella bank

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The Daltons, a famous family of robbers from Malaga that operated throughout the country, will sit on the dock this Wednesday for a spectacular robbery committed in a

branch

in which they took almost half a million euros and jewelry A coup perpetrated on September 17, 2018, for which they face a request for a total penalty of 36 years in prison for the crimes of robbery with violence and criminal organization.

of the Prosecutor's Office, to which he has had access

, points out that the six main defendants hid, before the assault, in a place next to the bank, located on Ricardo Soriano avenue in Marbella.

For two days, discreetly, they were tearing down walls to make a butron through which to enter the bank. "About 7.45 am -on the day of the robbery- the defendants agreed [...], wearing ski masks and gloves, [.. .] and carrying a Kimar pistol, model

". Once inside, they threatened the five employees who had just arrived with a gun and demanded that they" reveal the key word of the alarm and open the safe ". The thieves quickly took 214,235 euros in banknotes, They kept in plastic bags, although they did not find it enough loot. One of them, "carrying a radio", began to open individual safes available to customers. In the main one there were 50,000 euros in cash, three watches of luxury - two Patek Philippe and an Omega - and jewelery previously priced at 117,000 euros, allegedly trying to open another four.

On a family farm

The leader of the band,

David LL

, And his brother

Antonio Jesus LL

"They kept part of the money and the jewels stolen in a Cártama Estación farm owned by their parents." Hidden in a buried beach refrigerator, the loot was discovered by investigators from the Group of Robberies of the Provincial Police Station of Malaga after one of the agents will notice an alteration in the terrain.

A scene recorded on video that this newspaper advanced and that allowed to recover two of the stolen luxury watches, the third - a Patek Philippe with a silver dial, a pink strap and valued at 36,000 euros - was in the possession of David's girlfriend , a young woman who has finally been accused of receiving, since she supposedly had "full knowledge of her illicit origin".

The Prosecutor's Office requests a sentence of one year to six months in prison. The alleged perpetrators of the robbery face a five-year charge for robbery with violence, to which is added one more for belonging to a criminal group.

Two decades of robberies

Raised in the Malaga neighborhood of Portada Alta, the Daltons have a long criminal history behind them and have been in and out of jail since 2001.

«They have been professional robbers from a very young age.

I can't remember the times I've had David sitting there, "explains one of the officers who arrested him. They know him perfectly, as do his three brothers.

Nicknamed

The Ear

, exercised leadership despite not being the oldest.

With academic and cultural concerns, he escaped the usual profile of a thief. A law student at the University of Malaga, on more than one occasion he was accompanied by police officers when preparing for exams in the library.

And on social networks he left a mark of his interest in reading, especially the book

This is how the world is ruled

, from

Pedro Banos

, colonel expert in geopolitics. This Wednesday they will sit again in the dock in the First Section of the

Provincial Court

from Malaga.

It will not be the last appointment with the Justice, since they are charged with a second robbery in Marbella and a third in

Barcelona

.

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