I entered the business establishments hiding the face with a helmet motorcycle and intimidated the workers, verbally or with a White weaponand took small amounts of money between 200 and 500 euros. Then, it was given on the run with a stolen motorcycle. This was the ‘modus operandi’ of a 35-year-old man arrested by the Mossos d’Esquadra What presumed author of eight violent robberies in four hotelsa fuel stationa bingoa pharmacy and a Supermarket of Barcelona, plugs, The Prat Y L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.
“The robberies followed a same patternwith coincident elements, which led the investigators to determine that the same person was behind these events,” the Catalan police said in a statement. police investigation started the past June 30thwhen the first robbery.
Verbal intimidation and with a knife
On that occasion, the thief broke into the lobby of a hotel located in the district of sants-montjuic and took 400 euros after intimidating the receptionist in the presence of a client. Later, and until July 30, there were another seven robberies: four on July 27 and three more on the last day of that month.
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Agents from the Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of the Mossos in Barcelona, together with units from the Sants-Montjuic district and the L’Hospitalet police station, took over the investigation. The man, who has 13 police records, was arrested on November 24 and the motorcycle with which he fled from the robberies has already been recovered, the body added.
In addition, the following day an entry and search was made at the home of the arrested person, where part of the clothing used during the robberies was found. On November 26, a judge decreed freedom with charges for the detainee.