Pineapples in the morning and jewelry and whatever valuables they looted at night. It is what a criminal group dedicated itself to stealing until it was looted by the Civil Guard. And they didn't mind traveling miles to commit crimes, during the day and at night.
Every day, they left the province of Zamora, where they lived, and traveled to Valladolid, around the Pinares Highway (A-601, Valladolid-Segovia), where they obtained double loot.
The investigation of the agents came to detect an increase in crimes for theft of pineapples in towns in Valladolid and also in some nearby Segovia. The ROCA team, specialized in investigating and clarifying cases that appeared in the field -agricultural and livestock activity- got on the track. And the time they were trying to connect the dots, the Civil Guard also detected that at the same time it was experiencing "a considerable increase in the crimes of robbery with force in homes in the same area", which was also increased to investigate.
And the course of the investigations came together in that it was a group of people residing in the province of Zamora who moved daily to Valladolid pine forests, where "in broad daylight", as La Benérita has pointed out, they dedicated themselves to stealing pineapples. And at nightfall they changed their criminal activity: they chose houses where their inhabitants were not to give the 'stick'. Robberies with force to access the interior and take valuables, mainly jewelry.
To erase evidence, the investigation has found that they were mainly sold in two 'buy gold' establishments in the capital Zamora, where many of the stolen ones had already been melted down in towns such as Aldeamayor de San Martín, La Pedraja de Portillo, Olmedo or Madrigal de The High Towers.
The first arrests will take place in December of last year, when two of the alleged criminals "fallen" for the continued crime of theft of pineapples, although the investigation remained open, until they managed to arrest the four members of the gang: RZ, VG and FD, residents of the Zamora towns of Corese and Morales de Toro.
But another was missing, MFF, who had fled to his country of origin. But January came back. The alert jumped through the Zaragoza airport, which reached the Civil Guard to follow his lead, until he was arrested in La Roda (Albacete), to add more to demonstrate a history with numerous records of home robberies and "with great mobility for the entire national geography.
