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Although the bracelets, in a first test gave a positive result to gold, later it was found that they were steel

The National Police have arrested two persons with multiple police record for property crimes, and authors of a continuing offense of fraud, selling several bracelets, gold supposedly in pawnshops, being really a bath composition of that precious metal and the remaining steel.

Following information received from a house purchase and sale of gold, which had been reported that a deception in buying a bracelet type weekly, proceeded to launch a police investigation to try to see if this had been something specific or was committed in other establishments.

The result of these inquiries, the police officers were able to confirm that indeed, two people of Cartagena, were engaging from September to the fraudulent sale of steel bracelets with gold plating, which given its perfection in design to induce deceive their buyers.

For this reason and because it was found that these people had been sold, so far, in three pawnshops, a total of thirty-eight bracelets, prepared a monitoring device to achieve those arrested the suspects.

This device paid off last October 18 with the arrest of one of them when in an establishment situated in the Barrio Peral, trying to sell gold fourteen weeklies similar to those above, being intercepted by police inside, holding other bracelets thirteen more in his clothes.

Once at the station, and after further investigation, we proceeded to the arrest of his accomplice, both by being accused of swindling a continuing offense.

In all the detainees have been selling bracelets fifty-one false in Cartagena, at a cost of four thousand seven hundred and sixteen euros, although researchers continue efforts to determine whether more weeklies have introduced other gold buying and selling homes in the region.

The investigations, which remain open, have been carried out by the Judicial Police Brigade of the police station of the National Police of Cartagena, which after completing the police inquiries put to justice detainees.

Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia