Agents of the Local Police of San Javier arrested a minor early Monday morning for his alleged involvement in the robbery of a notary’s office in the municipality.
A call to the Emergency Coordination Centre 112 alerted at night that a robbery was taking place in a notary’s office, located in a central avenue of the coastal town. The emergency services alerted the local police, and several patrols went to the scene. On arriving at the building, the officers observed that the door leading to the offices had been burst. On entering the premises, they observed that all the rooms were disarrayed, with papers lying on the floor, drawers and cupboards were open and, apparently, there was no one in the building. It appeared that the perpetrators had fled before the units arrived.
When the local police officers came out of the building, they saw a young man, a minor, sitting in front of the notary’s office, with a suspicious attitude, and asked him to identify himself. As he was nervous, they searched a fanny pack he was carrying and found two mobile phones. The young man told them that they had left them with him, but the officers suspected that the minor might be communicating with the thieves who had robbed the notary’s office a few moments earlier. And so he was. His function was, apparently, to keep watch and warn of the arrival of police or civil guards, known as a ‘aguador’. The suspect was taken to the Guardia Civil barracks, detained due to evidence linking him to the robbery. Subsequently, he was handed over to the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office, which ordered him to be placed in a juvenile detention centre.
The Guardia Civil has opened an investigation to locate the alleged thieves of the notary’s office.