Alicante’s self-service launderettes are fortunate. Following his most recent arrest by the National Police, who are looking for an accomplice who helped him during the robberies by serving as a lookout, a repeat offender with over 70 arrests who recently specialised in stealing cash from these establishments was placed under remand in custody to begin the year.
The 31-year-old Spaniard who was arrested again in late December for a series of thefts at launderettes had more than 50 past offences with the Civil Guard and 22 with the National Police. He relocated to Alicante from a Toledo village last August, and in the six months since, the National Police have arrested him 16 times for committing over 30 crimes in the city, over half of which were at self-service launderettes. He has been accused of robberies at Sant Joan d’Alacant and Guardamar in addition to the Alicante launderettes.
Twelve robberies in two weeks
He even spent a month in pretrial custody during his six-month stay in Alicante, but his incarceration had no deterrent impact. On the contrary, he started robbing others as soon as he was freed, and within fourteen days, he had committed twelve crimes.
Investigators from the Central and Northern District police stations in Alicante’s Judicial Police units conducted many operations that resulted in the suspect’s arrest. The accused individual was linked to the spate of robberies at Alicante launderettes thanks in large part to witness accounts, security camera footage analysis, and fingerprints gathered by the Scientific Police.
At first, the burglar mostly stole from restaurants and other establishments, as well as from inside cars. But in the end, he concentrated mostly on self-service launderettes, which are open to the public. Once inside, he would either steal or break into the cash registers or ATMs that were situated in places where he needed to use force to enter.
In their reports on this offender, the National Police stress that the arrests have no deterrent impact on the offender and caution that the criminal repeat is severe.
In order to prevent the National Police from identifying him, he wears a mask, cap, or hooded garments when he enters the places to carry out the robberies. Nevertheless, investigators were able to identify him in a number of recordings from the looted places’ video surveillance systems.
Author: Derek Appleton
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