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Spain’s Security Forces Detain Dozens in Nationwide Anti-Crime Sweep

Security teams used GPS tracking, security camera footage, forensic analysis to dismantle a multi-province copper-theft ring, break up drug hubs, arrest burglary cells, apprehend hit-and-run fugitives, pursue fairground brawl suspects.

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Overview

  • Five alleged members of an itinerant butrón gang were arrested for stealing copper valued at €567,471 from industrial sites in Alicante, Murcia, Valladolid and other provinces
  • Guardia Civil dismantled a Gallarta drug distribution point, detaining three suspects and seizing quantities of cocaine, hashish, MDMA and over €411,000 in cash
  • Raids targeted a burglary ring behind microcar break-ins in Córdoba, resulted in three arrests for home and vehicle thefts in Cádiz and saw the detention of three fairground workers after a brawl in A Coruña injured a minor
  • Traffic-police investigations led to the arrest of a 66-year-old in Granada on charges of negligent homicide and hit-and-run and a 19-year-old in Elche for fleeing the scene after critically injuring a 12-year-old pedestrian
  • In Argentina, prosecutors charged officer Thomas Valentín Zalazar with exceeding legitimate defense following a February Banfield shooting that killed two young men