The PSP arrested a gang of four elements this morning, which, over the past two months, will have stolen from around 20 gold buying houses in the Algarve. When he was intercepted, the group was heading towards Spain, in a large-capacity car, after having made two more robberies, one in Quarteira and the other in Faro.
PSP source told the Sul Informação that "this investigation had been going on for about two months, when the first cases arose" and that there will be no more members of the group to be captured.
The four men, who our newspaper found to be Spanish, are aged between 20 and 30, and reside in Seville.
Regarding the number of thefts in the region, the PSP is "convicted" that there will have been "about 20", but investigations are still ongoing and the Sul Informação he knows that the fact that men act hooded and at dawn, when there are fewer witnesses, complicates their identification and the formulation of concrete evidence.
O modus operandi The group did not differ much from case to case: “they forced their way in by breaking and entering, one man was left to act as security, and the others entered to do their work. Then they looked for the valuables and sometimes took the safe which, normally, in this type of store is not very bulky».
Despite the fact that, over the past two months, the criminal activity of the group has yielded "a few thousand euros", in recent weeks the thefts are no longer as profitable, due to the action of the authorities, who warned the store owners to leave the store. minimum possible value in gold and cash, overnight, in establishments.
With the decrease in the value stolen, the group "began to look for jewels in the region, having made several attempts at robbery", revealed the same source.
The gang members will appear in court this Tuesday.
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