The Civil Guard has arrested a 76-year-old man in Ponferrada (León) for sexually harassing 19 women by telephone, six of them minors, and who is considered one of the most active telephone sexual harassers in Spain, according to the Efe agency. .
According to the armed institute, the man has been arrested in the framework of the Melos operation as the alleged perpetrator of 38 crimes, 16 of them for sexual harassment by telephone, 11 for usurpation of civil status, 10 for false documents and one for threats, committed in different points throughout the national territory.
The operation began at the request of the Investigating Court number 3 of Úbeda (Jaén), following a complaint received by a neighbor from Jódar in which she stated that between August 2021 and February 2022 she had been receiving on her mobile phone terminal, more than a hundred calls, most of them from a hidden number, in which an unknown man asked her for sexual favors.
In addition to the calls, the complainant explained that she also received messages through different applications, most of them vexatious and highly sexual.
According to Civil Guard sources, once the calls were analyzed, it was found that the stalker had three different mobile devices, in which he used 20 different telephone numbers, in the name of usurped or fictitious identities, with the sole intention of not being located and preserve your anonymity.
Once the alleged perpetrator was located in Ponferrada after a laborious investigation, nine mobile telephone terminals, four tablets, three desktop computers, 25 SIM cards from different operators, 35 fraudulent contracts with telephone operators in the name of usurped persons and four agendas have been seized. of his property in which the detainee listed all the calls he made to find his victims.
The modus operandi used by the author consisted of hiding his identity by using telephones in the name of usurped identities, to later make indiscriminate calls to random numbers, sexually harassing only the calls to which a woman answered.
This action is part of the response that the General Directorate of the Civil Guard has given to try to mitigate the exponential increase in the number of crimes committed through ICT, and especially computer fraud, with the creation of so-called Teams @, with the mission of reinforcing the capacities to investigate and prosecute cybercrime at a national and international level.
