Armed robbers arrested in Murcia

Officers from the National Police have arrested the alleged perpetrators of a robbery in a jewellery store in a shopping centre in Murcia which occurred during opening hours.

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The detainees entered the shopping arcades on two stolen mopeds, riding through the shopping centre until they reached the establishment, where they threatened customers and shop assistants with a firearm and an axe.

Four people have been arrested, completely dismantling the criminal organisation and clarifying, so far, the commission of five robberies.

The agents suspected that those investigated would commit a new crime, for which a police device was urgently established in which the Special Security Task Force participated to carry out the arrest of the four members of the organisation.

The detainees are also linked to assaults carried out at a gas station, in a supermarket and in a game room. Two of the detainees had already been arrested for similar acts on other occasions. One of them was arrested in September 2017 for his alleged participation in 15 robberies, while the second was arrested in February 2020 for 13 robberies.

The detainees were brought to justice as the alleged perpetrators of five crimes of robbery with violence perpetrated in the last two months.