The Civil Guard of the Murcia Region has completed the second phase of Operation Twilight Dismantling a criminal gang specialized in house theft With an explanation of fifty criminal acts committed in the region and in Alicante.
Benmira investigators explained about 50 crimes Robbery by force committed in homes From the municipalities of Lorca, Puerto Lumbreras, Santomera, Las Torres de Cotias, Pinil, Aguilas and Totana, as well as in Guardamar del Segura, Dolores and Almaradi in the province of Alicante, Benemerita sources said in a press release.
The operation was opened at the end of last year, when the Civil Guard detected an increase in criminal acts, in particular Forced robberies inside homesThey noted that the events, in different areas of Lorca and Puerto Lumbreras, had raised some social anxiety.
Their main goal: to seize money and jewelry
The authors studied their targets in advance, and after ensuring that no one was in the houses, they reached them. Break the perimeter fence and forced security systems, such as window and door bars, and CCTV. Once inside the property, the authors quickly searched all the rooms looking for them Seizing money and jewelryalthough technological equipment is also stolen in some robberies.
As the operation progressed, other criminal acts attributed to the same criminal group occurred It allowed researchers to identify behaviorsIn terms of appointments, How it works And the areas of work of the perpetrators, which also made it possible to predict the movements of the criminal group. In February, investigators discovered a vehicle used by the suspects in Lorca.
Arrest after a car escaped at “full speed”
The Civil Guard, in cooperation with several units of the local police of Lorca, established a surveillance device in the area where the investigated criminal acts were committed, which culminated in the location and arrest of the three suspects. After someone ran away at high speed, Driving recklessly and endangering other road users, which led to them colliding with several police cars.
Civil Guard members began the second phase of the operation, after submitting the detainees to judicial custody, with the aim of clarifying all the criminal acts committed. By the disunited criminal group. The analysis of all the information obtained by investigators has made it possible to clarify fifty criminal acts committed from the end of 2023 until the arrests in February 2025 in different municipalities of the Murcia Region and the Province of Alicante.
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