The Councilor for Public Safety of the City of Lorca, Belén Pérez Martínez, has announced an action of interest developed by agents of the Units of Attention to Pedanías (UAP) and Local Operational Prevention and Response Unit (UPROL) of the Local Police of Lorca in the early morning of Friday, February 23.
The City Council has indicated that "the action took place at 00.10 am in the morning, when notice was received by phone call from the owner of a gas station located in the deputation of La Paca, who had observed how they got off a vehicle with foreign registration three individuals who covered their heads with hoods and were loitering around the gas station.After the warning they moved to the place both a provision of the Unit for Attention to Pedanías (UAP), as another endowment of the Prevention Unit and Local Operative Response (UPROL) in support of this ".
"Upon arrival, the agents observed the three individuals together with a high-end tourism, ranchera type, with Lithuanian registration, proceeding to the identification of these people, all of Lithuanian nationality, through the police databases. In the same way we proceeded with the documentation of the vehicle.From the checks it turned out that one of the individuals, of Lithuanian nationality, was being sued, arrested and detained by the Court number 6 of Almería, where he had 39 crimes of Theft continued, so that immediately proceeded to the information of rights and detention, being transferred to police agencies for the investigation of proceedings and judicial disposition.
Pérez Martínez stressed that "this detention means once again highlighting the importance of collaboration between neighbors and the Local Police for greater security in the municipality.The police are at the service of all Lorca and therefore respond to any warning by developing such actions This is how it has allowed the capture of a subject with an order to search, capture and arrest for numerous robberies, which is why we must congratulate the different agents participating in the action for the success it has entailed ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca