The members of this young band, including four children, acting as a group, without organization and for fun.
Four of the detainees have a history of committing criminal acts before.
The Civil Guard has developed over the last week the operational phase of the operation "BESGASTRI" which culminated in the dismantling of a dedicated youth gang to commit crimes of theft and vehicle damage.
We proceeded to the arrest of seven persons and the allocation of other three, completely dismantling the band clarifying this operation crime twenty damage inside the vehicle theft occurred in the town of Cehegín.
The Civil Guard in late 2008 launched a police operation to observe the increase in the commission of a series of crimes committed on the same modus operandi against vehicles in the Northwest region, generating an alarm among the population.
The result of the first police investigation, investigating officers found that behind the thefts was a boy band made up of several persons aged between 14 and 20 years of age, starting surveillance and monitoring devices to fully know the structure and organization of this criminal group to disband it.
From the visual inspections carried out, the technical work and complex police investigation, we have obtained conclusive evidence that led to the Civil Guard officers to determine which members of the network are suspected of twenty and damage robberies committed since the end of 2008 in the town of Cehegín.
After obtaining all necessary signs Civil Guard began the operational phase of the operation that culminated in the arrest of members of the band.
Modus Operandi
The members of this young band, including four children, acting as a group, without organization and for fun.
The leader, who at the time of the commission of the offense was twenty years, marking an area of the town of Cehegín at random.
Immediately moved to the place and headed toward the parked vehicles on public roads in remote and unfrequented areas of public transit, where they proceeded to smash the windows, click wheel, and scratching the body of the objectives, subtracting in any cases, objects within them.
The current balance of the operation is as follows:
Detainees:
It has arrested seven members of this criminal network, currently four of them minors, on suspicion of criminal damage and theft continued strongly in the vehicle interior.
It has indicted three members of this criminal network, the three older age, on suspicion of criminal damage and theft continued strongly in the vehicle interior.
Those arrested have been educated and proceedings available to the Magistrate's Court in Caravaca de la Cruz.
With the development of this operation has been able to clarify the commission of this particular criminal activity in the town of Cehegín.
Source: Ministerio del Interior