Yesterday the Mossos d’Esquadra arrested three women aged 23, 26 and 34 in Barcelona for defrauding and robbing vulnerable people in Tarragona through false gas checks, while they are investigating a man, aged 32, who is currently He is serving a prison sentence.
As reported this Thursday by the Generalitat Police, agents from the Investigation Unit of the Tarragona police station arrested the three women in the Catalan capital as alleged perpetrators of seven crimes of theft, fraud and membership in a criminal group.
The arrests have been the result of an open investigation following a total of seven scams committed in Tarragona between the summer of 2021 and the spring of last year.
The women posed as false gas inspectors with the aim of stealing jewelry and bank documentation from the victims, which they then used to make fraudulent transactions.
These three arrests are in addition to two others that were made at the end of last May in the Baix Llobregat region for the same reason, when two other women aged 25 and 27 were arrested.
In the first phase of the investigation, it was determined that the first two detainees entered the homes after pushing and closing the victims in the kitchen while they rummaged through their closets and drawers.
Apart from jewelry and other valuables that they seized, they also obtained cards and documents to be able to carry out banking transactions in their favor.
The Mossos of the Investigation Unit of the Tarragona police station concluded that the last three arrested yesterday at noon in Barcelona, ??with the complicity of the man under investigation, acted in a similar way but without using violence or threats.
They limited themselves to posing as false personnel from a gas company under the pretext of carrying out a search inside the homes, and while one of them distracted the victim, the others took the opportunity to steal.
They always selected a victim profile of advanced age, with some handicap or delicate state of health and, through deception, they took advantage of this situation of vulnerability to commit robberies and scams.
The last three detainees were released the same day of their arrest with the obligation to appear before the judicial authority when required.
