In the registration made, the Meritorious ROCA Team has recovered the stolen effects, which have already been returned to its owner
The Civil Guard of the Region of Murcia, within the 'Plan against the abductions in agricultural and livestock farms', has developed the operation 'Implement', which has made it possible to clarify the theft of agricultural implements of large tonnage from a farm in Alhama de Murcia .
The operation has culminated with the arrest of a local resident, as the alleged perpetrator of theft, and the recovery of all the stolen effects, which have already been returned to their legitimate owner.
In the middle of last February, civil guards of the ROCA Team were alerted of the theft of agricultural implements of large tonnage from an agricultural farm in the municipality of Alhama de Murcia, which grows vegetables.
The Civil Guards initiated the investigation in the affected farm, where they gathered all the possible indications on the way to commit the theft of the tools and the perpetrators of the criminal act.
As a result of the researches carried out, it was established as the main research line that the perpetrator of the crime could be found among people from the area linked to the agricultural sector.
The exhaustive study on the property and lease of agricultural farms adjoining the affected and discreet surveillance in the area, as well as citizen collaboration, has allowed the Civil Guard has been able to identify a farmer as the alleged perpetrator of the crime, besides locating the place where the stolen effects were found.
The Civil Guard has made the entry and registration of a property in which it has found the agricultural implements stolen and has arrested the suspect as alleged perpetrator of theft.
Motivated by an old debt
The investigation shows that the one arrested now allegedly committed the theft with the purpose of collecting a debt that the owner of the tools had contracted with him.
Apparently, the detainee, knowing that the large-tonnage instruments for agricultural use were without security measures on the farm, went to it during the night and used heavy machinery to subtract them and take them to a ship of their property, where they were recovered and returned to their owner.
The arrested Spanish, of 41 years and neighbor of Alhama de Murcia, the recovered effects and the diligences instructed have been made available to the Court of Instruction Totana (Murcia).
Source: Ministerio del Interior