The National Police arrested a man in Orihuela for stealing two vehicles from different garages.
Investigators learned of two vehicle thefts from inside garages, one of which was a motorcycle and the other a car. The victim of the motorcycle did not know how the theft could have occurred, although the owner of the car had suffered the theft of the set of keys to his vehicle the day before.
Following the investigation, the officers discovered that a man had tried to manipulate the recording devices in the garage to prevent them from working, but the attempts failed allowing the officers to immediately identify the suspect.
A surveillance device was set up in the vicinity of the suspect’s home, which resulted in his prompt arrest as soon as he was spotted by the officers. The effective intervention allowed the officers to locate the stolen vehicle inside another garage in the municipality and they also found the motorcycle in front of the entrance to the suspect’s building.
The National Police also recovered the sets of keys to the vehicles that had been stolen to carry out the crimes.
The detainee, a 31-year-old man of Spanish origin, had a criminal record and was placed at the disposal of the judicial authority.
