Portal de Fuente Alamo
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So far it has been clarified fifteen robberies
The recovered copper was in a company of the agricultural sector
The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia has developed the Operation COPPER 'framed' Plan police response to the theft of copper wiring, "which, so far, has resulted in the recovery of 9,100 Kg Fuente Álamo. the so-called red gold, which had been stolen, and arrested seven people on charges of burglary and receiving stolen goods.
Agents Team ROCK (burglary in the field), one of the services established to prevent and prosecute the theft of copper wiring in farms in the Campo de Cartagena, Cartagena amazed at the hamlet of La Palma to the three occupants of a vehicle when they tried to make a sale of this material, particularly copper a current transformer.
As a precautionary measure, the Civil Guard seized the material object of the transaction and initiated research to verify their legal origin and rule out possible receptación: acquisition of stolen objects.
The characteristics of the seized objects, the researchers found that they had been stolen and managed to locate the place where he had committed the robbery, a company which at the time was without activity.
Shortly after it was found that the company had been robbed in recent months and had removed all wiring conductor of electricity, and its transformers, worth over 150,000 euros.
After obtaining all necessary evidence, the researchers located the three suspects and proceeded to arrest and subsequent remand in custody, suspected of several crimes of burglary.
Evidence obtained during the investigation also allowed to detect through a company Fuente Alamo were acquiring large amounts of copper illegally, a fact that surprised the researchers because there is no management company scrap metal or recycling in this municipality.
The research work allowed the team to locate the company ROCA was acquiring copper with a commercial business in the agricultural sector and unrelated to the scrap metal, so, in collaboration with the Protection of Nature (SEPRONA) , conducted an inspection of the property, where more than nine tons of copper scrub, clean, stripped and burned were found, and found that the company lacked the required documentation and record books.
The owners of the 'illegal junkyard', unable to prove the lawful origin of bare copper, have been arrested and brought to justice suspected of the crime of receiving.
The policemen, after the seizure and bring to justice copper, have carried out a detailed study of the stolen effects that has allowed so far, fifteen clarify crimes of robbery in the Campo de Cartagena.
Crimes solved so far:
Burglary in a store electrical equipment Roldán-Torre Pacheco, where two tons of stolen sheathed cable, which has been returned to its owner were subtracted.
Four robberies in electrical substations in the region.
Ten robberies in power lines in the region.
The detainees, retrieved effects and the proceedings have been brought before the Magistrate's Court in Cartagena (Murcia).
The operation is still open, so new actions and arrests are not ruled out.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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