Civil Guard agents assigned to the Investigation Area of ??the Arganda del Rey Main Post have managed, within the framework of the ‘Puss in Boots’ operation, to dismantle a criminal group made up of eleven people dedicated to the robbery of freight trucks that were parked in service areas in the province of Toledo, reported this Tuesday the Madrid Command in a press release.
The investigation began last November, when agents from the Arganda del Rey Main Post arrested three men who were traveling in a vehicle and who were transporting a significant amount of footwear of the same brand and for whom they could not justify their lawful origin.
The subsequent investigations allowed the agents to identify the merchandise, which had been stolen from a trailer when it was parked in a service area in the town of Cebolla, in the province of Toledo.
The progress of the investigation made it possible to relate this event to five others of similar characteristics that occurred in different service areas of the Castilian-La Mancha province, and in which the criminal group managed to get hold of tires, cleaning products, drugstores, clothing, and electrical appliances that They were inside truck trailers that were parked in service areas.
The criminal group always acted in the same way: they did it at night, using two cars and two small trucks to move to the different freight truck parking lots. The automobiles were used as a shuttle vehicle and to load the merchandise they stole.
When they located one that was of interest to them, they proceeded to break the seals or cut the canvas to get hold of the merchandise in a few minutes and leave the place quickly.
The group, made up of eleven people, was totally hierarchical. Three people were in charge of getting the logistics of the vehicles with which they traveled to commit the crimes, another three were in charge of receiving the stolen objects and giving them an outlet on the black market and finally the remaining five were in charge of stealing the goods from the interior of truck semi-trailers.
As a result of the investigation, the Civil Guard has arrested seven people and has proceeded to investigate another four more, ten men and one woman of Spanish and Romanian origin, aged between 25 and 55 and who for these reasons facts, they are accused of robbery with force in things, reception and belonging to a criminal group.
