It happened in broad daylight Fabra i Puig promenadein the Barcelona district of New Barris. A 44-year-old Catalan woman was walking down the street around seven in the morning on July 3, 2018 when “two men, dressed in dark colored tracksuit“, they approached him from behind and stole “by yanking” the black briefcase that he was carrying on his shoulder, as CASE OPEN, the investigation and events channel of Prensa Ibérica, has learned.
The two thieves ran out with their victim’s bag, which contained an Ipad, a laptop, of the Toshiba brand, valued at 1,200 euros and a set of keys to the house where the woman lived, as well as her documentation.
changed the lock
The victim reported the incident at a Mossos d’Esquadra police station that same day, but could not provide more details about the perpetrators of the robbery that would allow them to be identified and arrested, so he changed the lock on the door of his apartment and waited for the investigation to produce any results.
Barely a month later, on the morning of August 1, the Mossos found and recovered part of the loot ten kilometers from the place where the woman was attacked. A 36-year-old man, resident in Barcelona, had sold the stolen computer to a shop selling second-hand items, a Cash Converter in the neighborhood of Sants, for 380 euros. It was about Albert Cavallealready then known as the ‘love scammer’ after twenty women denounced him for tricking them into giving him money while they were in a romantic relationship.
Encants Market
This Tuesday Cavallé sits on the bench of the criminal court number 19 in Barcelona accused of a receiving offense to traffic in stolen goods. As OPEN CASE has learned, the Prosecutor’s Office asks a year and a half in jail. He defends that he is innocent. He assures that he has nothing to do with the robbery nor does he know the two criminals who executed him and that even did not know that the computer had been stolen.
Cavallé, represented by the attorney David Sansstates that he bought the laptop, a few days before reselling it, at the Encants Market, in the Plaza de Las Gloriaswhere he had already acquired, on other occasions, a TV and a wireless speaker bluetooth, and that, although he does not remember the price for which he bought the computer, it was not “abnormally low” so as to make him suspect that it could be a stolen object.
Other women’s computers
The defendant, who has a criminal record for fraud, misappropriation, simulation of crime and false complaint, has already been convicted several times for appropriating computers and other valuables that belonged to the girls he was cheating on. In November, the Barcelona Court sentenced him to three and a half years in prison for tricking his first girlfriend into staying with him. 60,000 euros, a Jeep Cherokee vehicle, a laptop, a television and a mobile phone.
Cavallé’s criminal career goes back to nine years ago. In 2013, a woman from Gavà (Barcelona), who met him in a contact page and spent a night with him, reported that when she woke up the next morning the scammer had left and fleeced her, taking, among other things, her computer: “The first thing I missed was my laptopI had it on one of the dining room furniture, along with the charger; he had also taken a purse with cash”. Cavallé was sentenced to pay a fine for a crime of theft.