The first actions were decisive in identifying the alleged perpetrator who was arrested with most of the stolen money
Citizen and police collaboration was decisive so that the arrest could be carried out in less than an hour and before he changed locations again in a taxi.
On July 13, 2023, the Civil Guard of Gran Canaria arrested a 20-year-old man with no police record, for the alleged responsibility of a crime of robbery with violence that occurred on Las Palmeras Avenue in the town of Puerto Rico from the municipality of Mogán.
The events occurred around 08:50 a.m. on July 13, when the Civil Guard of Puerto Rico-Mogán was alerted by a woman in an advanced state of pregnancy, who had just been the victim of a robbery with violence by a young boy on Las Palmeras Avenue.
Apparently the alleged perpetrator approached her from behind and grabbed her by the wrist to throw her to the floor and steal a wallet that she was carrying under her armpit, in which she had personal documentation and €210 in bills of the same value, starting to flee towards the commercial center of Puerto Rico.
First inquiries and location efforts
The Civil Guard immediately arrived at the scene to help the victim and thus collect the first police investigations that were decisive for his subsequent location, since it was the physical description and the address that the perpetrator took after the robbery.
With the data provided, the Civil Guard activated a search device in the surrounding area, taking a series of statements from witnesses and pedestrians and workers at the location, who provided new information about the direction taken by the alleged perpetrator.
The speed of action and the first inquiries were decisive in finding the author, since just 40 minutes later around 09.30:174 a.m., he was located and detained at the Arguineguín taxi rank just at the moment when he was take a taxi, the means in which he had traveled to that town, seizing a sharp and cutting object that he was carrying in his pocket, as well as the amount of XNUMX euros split into pieces as the victim had stated.
It is worth highlighting the necessity of citizen collaboration, as well as the principle of police collaboration on the part of the local police of Mogán, whose information and support in the location efforts were crucial for the arrest of the author in less than an hour and before He changed location for the second time, which would have made it even more difficult to completely clarify the facts.
The detainee has been brought before the court of the corresponding Maspalomas guard court, with the Civil Guard delivering the recovered money to its legitimate owner.
