The Civil Guard of the Main Post of Agüimes, within the framework of Operation Lightning, has seized 25 prohibited weapons following an operation that began last November in which a 37-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman were arrested. as alleged perpetrators of a crime of possession and distribution of prohibited weapons.
This investigation began in November 2021, when the Civil Guard managed to dismantle a family clan dedicated to the import, storage and sale of prohibited weapons (electric defenses), promoting their sale on social networks from the municipality of Ingenio.
At the beginning of the operation, the Civil Guard established a surveillance and monitoring device that resulted in the location, identification and arrest of a woman and a man, as alleged perpetrators of a crime of possession and distribution of prohibited weapons, with their defenses being intervened. electrical devices in perfect working order and prepared for sale to third parties, as well as a “paralyzing spray”, not approved.
These initial actions resulted in the seizure of two electric defenses, in perfect working order (one of them with the capacity to project 980.000 volts), and prepared for sale to third parties, as well as a “paralyzing spray”, not approved.
However, the Civil Guard, under suspicion of the possible existence of new imports of prohibited weapons, in months after the occurrence of the first events, began the appropriate investigations again and collected all the necessary investigations to locate postal shipments addressed to those investigated, all under the judicial protection of the Investigative Court Number 1 of Telde.
This monitoring resulted in the month of March, in the detection of a postal shipment in which one of those investigated would receive as the recipient, likely to contain prohibited weapons, for which the Civil Guard proceeded to seize it and subsequently open it at the Judicial Headquarters. , checking how it was a new shipment of prohibited weapons, containing 10 electric defenses of 5000 volts and 15 defenses of 980000 volts, all of them prohibited from possession in Spain and which, in application of the current Penal Code, could carry penalties of between 1 and 3 years in prison.