Events Arrested in Zamora the dangerous Portuguese couple wanted by the Civil Guard
A couple of dangerous Portuguese fugitives have starred in a hectic summer of robberies at gas stations in
Spain
and
Portugal
that has ended with their arrest by agents of the National Police and the Municipal Police of Zamora in the hamburger restaurant of a Zamora shopping center.
The detainees,
SAP
, a
42-year
-old man , and
NCA
, a
40
-year-old woman , who have already been baptized by some media as
the Portuguese "Bonnie & Clyde"
, are scheduled to go to court this Tuesday after their arrest on Saturday night when they had a hamburger for dinner at
McDonald's
in the
Valderaduey shopping center
in
Zamora
, sources from the investigation have reported.
Another of the clients of the fast food establishment recognized them and called the State security forces, who days before had spread their photograph on social networks after the chain of
robberies
that they encased, many of them with
violence and intimidation
, wielding the couple
a firearm and a knife
to take the day's collection.
Triple crime in Braganza
The peculiar criminal vacation trip of that Portuguese couple began at the end of July, just after the
crimes of three members of a family
committed in
Braganza
(
Portugal
), in an investigation that is under summary secrecy and in which the now detainees could be implicated.
The chain of
vehicle thefts and robberies
began in the
Algarve
, in the south of
Portugal
, where the Portuguese authorities have reported four robberies, the last of them on July 28 at a
Faro
gas station where they intimidated employees with his most usual
modus operandi
, using him a short weapon and she a knife, to flee with the money in a stolen car.
In that robbery the flight took them to the
Ayamonte
border , through which they crossed into
Spain
and there they began a robbery route with a first stop in the province of
Seville
.
Then they chose a service station in the city of
Badajoz
, which they docked on August 4 and two days later another in
Talavera la Real
(Badajoz).
The trail of robberies with violence and intimidation continued last Monday the 8th at the
Cazalegas
service station (Toledo) and on the run they caused a traffic accident.
From there they moved to
Madrid
, where last Wednesday they stole a car under threat in the
Moncloa
district .
The National Police activated the search for the vehicle and it was found that it was used in a robbery, this time without violence and intimidation, at a gas station on the A-5 motorway in
Torrefresneda
(Badajoz).
From there, it is speculated that they may have either gone up the
Ruta de la Plata
or crossed the border and moved north through Portuguese roads, with their possible involvement in another robbery on Friday in
Fundao
, before arriving this Saturday in
Zamora
.
most wanted
By then, the chain of robberies had generated social alarm and the
Civil Guard
itself had issued a notice with the faces of the two criminals to request citizen collaboration.
This is how one of the customers of the hamburger restaurant recognized the couple, called the Civil Guard and they notified the
National Police
with a description of the clothing they were wearing and the place where they were.
The arrest was carried out without resistance and the man and woman were transferred to the National Police station in
Zamora
, from where it is initially planned that this Tuesday the 16th they will go to court.
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