Recovered skins valued at about 5500 euros
Agents of the National Police have arrested five men, aged between 23 and 67 years for a crime of burglary in things.
The investigation began about two months ago, upon learning they were committing various robberies in fur tanneries in Elche.
After the first investigations could find that after the theft pelts were sold to receptadores that gave them out in different companies in this town.
At the end of January was intercepted in Elche Carrus Polygon a vehicle occupied by two individuals, which contained a lot of skins.
Five arrested in Elche and Lorca
After these events were arrested its two occupants and confiscated skins, being able to figure out that the skins were the result of a burglary last December in a transport company in the town of Lorca.
After several investigations, on February 24 could locate and arrest two more individuals in the town of Lorca as perpetrators of theft pelts and a final individual as receptador.
The research was conducted by agents Local Judicial Police of the local police station in Elche and Lorca.
The detainees, after being heard in statement two were released and two others were made available to the Magistrate's Court Guard Lorca (Murcia).
Source: Jefatura Superior de Policía de la Región de Murcia