17 people arrested in Cañada Real for looting trucks in service areas and stealing from industrial warehouses

The Civil Guard has dismantled a criminal group specialized in the theft of merchandise in heavy vehicles and industrial warehouses that operated on the main communication routes that surround the province of Madrid.

and another four have been investigated and up to 31 crimes of robbery with force have been clarified, recovering stolen merchandise worth 200,000 euros and intervening two trucks with which they loaded the stolen material.

The Investigation Area of ​​the Valmojado Civil Guard began Operation Capps-5 last December following the

in the town of Casarrubios from the Mount.

After the first information, the agents confirmed that it was an organized group that had carried out other similar robberies in the Toledo municipalities of Santa Cruz del Retamar, Santa Olalla or Cazalegas.

This gang was focused on carrying out crimes against property, especially robberies with force inside vehicles and industrial buildings.

They acted around the main communication routes that surround the province of Madrid such as

reaching truck parking areas from towns in Cuenca and Toledo.

Its modus operandi was to use heavy vehicles of up to 7,500 kilos to transport the stolen merchandise, as well as passenger cars as shuttles to provide protection and avoid the action of the Security Forces and Bodies.

To do this,

Once they had made their selection, a large group of between 5 and 10 people went to the chosen trailer, cut the canvas and extracted the material, which could range from food products to household appliances.

This merchandise was quickly moved to their truck and transferred to a secure area where it waited until it got an outlet in the market through the resale of different receivers.

organization and experience

This criminal group was based entirely in the town of Madrid, specifically in the neighborhood of Puente de Vallecas and Cañada Real Galiana, where they had located and developed

Its components were perfectly organized, with tasks well distributed and with extensive experience.

The members have an extensive history of committing crimes against property, with a large number of records in similar acts, counting between all of them more than 90 arrests and more than 600 criminal acts.

The last crime before being arrested was committed inside an industrial warehouse in the town of Arganda del Rey,

in Madrid, where copper pipes were stored for acclimatization equipment installations.

In it, the alleged perpetrators took advantage of the night hours to force the closures and introduce their own vehicles into the facility to load the merchandise, subtracting 368 copper hoses worth approximately 90,000 euros.

Other effects were also intervened, such as food products, adding everything recovered to a value of 200,000 euros.

A few hours after this robbery occurred,

and investigate another four, with the support of the Municipal Police of the Puente de Puente district. Vallecas in Madrid, clarifying 32 crimes, 30 of them for robbery with force inside vehicles, one for theft inside an industrial warehouse and another for belonging to a criminal group.

In addition to recovering the stolen material in his latest crime, the agents seized two trucks.

Both the detainees and the different effects were placed at the disposal of the Illescas Guard Court of First Instance and Instruction.

The Civil Guard thanks the citizens for their collaboration and reminds that the emergency telephone number available to the Civil Guard, 062, is available 24 hours a day.

Likewise, the existence of the free mobile application ALERTCOPS is reported so that in the event of any eventuality they can contact the State Security Forces and Bodies.

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