Overview
- Police in Madrid broke up a repeat-offending Rolex snatch crew of five, seizing 1,605 Rivotril pills linked to karkubi distribution and recovering high-end watches and cash, with all suspects remanded to custody.
- An itinerant burglary cell operating in Elche and other parts of the Valencian Community and Murcia was arrested after marking doors with thin silicone threads and using lock-picking techniques, and four members were jailed as probes tied one suspect to an Austrian EAW.
- In Granollers and Canovelles, officers dismantled a violent narcotics group, seizing 2.175 kg of methamphetamine, 1.1 kg of cocaine and 600 soap tablets laced with meth, with two suspects ordered to pretrial detention.
- Two men were detained in Murcia after three residential break-ins in Puente Tocinos and an attempted entry with occupants inside, one identified from security footage and another caught hiding in a stairwell with tools.
- Guardia Civil agents in Tres Cantos arrested three suspected members of a vehicle break-in ring linked to 31 cases targeting construction vans, using cars registered with false data and causing losses valued at more than €70,000.