The detainee caused a persecution by several highways of La Hoya.
After leaving the car in haste he began to run away.
When being intercepted by agents of the UPROL wielded a weapon, being reduced by the police immediately.
The Councilor for Public Safety in the City of Lorca, Mª Belén Pérez, has reported that agents of the Local Operational Prevention and Response Unit (UPROL) belonging to the Local Police in our city have arrested a person as the perpetrator of a crime of Robbery with force in housing and subtraction of vehicle.
It is an intervention carried out within the preventive / operative actions carried out by the Local Police Corps.
Perez Martinez explained that the arrest occurred last Saturday, February 18 about 20:00 hours, when a patrol belonging to the unit that was patrolling in the hamlet of La Hoya Lorca identified a vehicle that had been stolen from the past Day 16 of the same, during the robbery with force committed in a house of the parish lorquina of Almendricos.
The Edil de Seguridad Ciudadana has indicated that when the agents realized that the vehicle coincided with the one stolen in that hamlet, they gave clear and precise signals to stop the march, to which their driver ignored, undertaking a flight that Concluded minutes later, when the police presence could not be eluded.
The vehicle braked dry afterwards, with its two occupants on foot, which ended about 300 meters for one of them, as it was stopped by the police while fleeing through the areas of crops surrounding that hamlet, To be used in depth to be able to reduce this individual, who carried a prohibited weapon that was quickly neutralized, proceeding to his arrest as alleged perpetrator of robbery with force in housing.
The detainee and the vehicle recovered by the Local Police Agents of the UPROL unit were placed at the disposal of the Civil Guard who continues with the practice of the corresponding procedures.
The Councilor for Security has stated that this detention confirms the constant preventive / operational work carried out by the Local Police in Lorca through the different units in which it is organized, especially the new groups that expand the UPROL unit after the recent reordering of troops Carried out, and through the surveillance devices that are established throughout the municipality, as well as its coordination with the rest of Forces and Security Corps.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca