Three robbers were apprehended by the National Police after they were discovered stealing from a Benidorm restaurant. The proprietor of the establishment was also arrested after the agents discovered, to their astonishment, that he was the subject of a European Arrest Warrant for Extradition (EAW) after they examined his documentation.
The police involvement started when CIMACC-SALA 091 informed officers from the Benidorm Local Citizen Security Brigade that a robbery was occurring at a restaurant in the town, prompting them to rush to the scene.
Three males were outside the restaurant with multiple bottles of alcohol and other stuff that they had stolen moments earlier by climbing over the perimeter wall, and the officers were shocked to see them there.
Three males of Spanish descent, ages 37, 43, and 58, were arrested as suspected of robbery with force when the facts were confirmed and the establishment’s owner was notified; the innkeeper was also taken into custody and is currently wanted.
The arrest warrant states that the fugitive was stopped by French police at a checkpoint in May 2017 with 249,000 euros in cash concealed in his car. He was unable to provide proof of the money’s legal origin and only told the agents that he was returning from a trip to Brussels at the time.
He later provided a whole different account of the source of the funds, and detectives discovered that the suspect had actually been in Amsterdam, Netherlands, rather than Brussels. After a trial in France, he was found guilty of money laundering from narcotics trafficking and given a three-year prison sentence, with one year and four months to serve.
The three people arrested for the robbery were placed at the disposal of the Benidorm Court of Instruction on duty, and the person arrested on the European arrest warrant was placed at the disposal of the Central Court of Instruction of the National Court, the body responsible for carrying out the procedures for his subsequent extradition .
Author: Derek Appleton
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