A couple of 20 and 29 years of age were arrested yesterday, at around 19 pm, when they were stealing oranges in an orchard in the Algoz (Silves) area.
The GNR caught the couple still inside the orange orchard, which they had entered without a license, with "more than a dozen orange bags" with them, totaling nearly 350 kilos of fruit, which they were preparing to transport in their car.
The duo, residing in the municipality of Albufeira, had already been "reported for this type of illicit activity days before, in roughly the same area, when, in the same vehicle, they consummated another theft of oranges", adds the GNR, in a statement.
To what Sul Informação he learned, the stolen oranges were intended to be sold by the side of the EN125 road.
The detainees are currently being presented to the Department of Investigation and Criminal Action of Silves to apply the coercive measures.
The Territorial Command of Faro The GNR emphasizes, in its communiqué, that it has "intensified the proximity policing actions in the region in the agricultural holdings where the harvest of citrus fruit takes place, in order to prevent the occurrence of crimes of orange theft".
As a result of these and other inspections, "unleashed on access roads to farms and in places referenced by street sales of oranges, about a ton of oranges have been seized in recent weeks," the authorities add.
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