In total imputed a total of 16 robberies, most of them by the procedure of climb.
Also arrested two other adults involved in the events as fences.
Some of the authors to be under 14 years old, could not be charged, and only were cited as witnesses in police accompanied by their parents.
The National Police, after a laborious and thorough investigation has been dismantled child band, consists of 13 minors and two majors, that since last July, have been engaged regularly to burglary in homes, sometimes with the residents inside as well as theft in stores and schools.
The police station in Cartagena, after a criminological study, was found that they were producing a series of robberies in the neighborhoods of San Felix and Jose Maria de la Puerta, whose common denominator was the procedure for the empowerment of the effects , namely through the facade climb and introduction by balconies and windows, after forcing, which subtracted amount of jewelry and supplies.
Performed the required visual inspections in buildings, specialists of Forensic Science, extracted various fingerprints which could not be identified, so that agents were authors hypothesized that people without a criminal record or children, a fact that greatly hindered research.
In this way and continuing inquiries could finally identify a group of children who were engaging in conduct such crimes, so deployed a strong police, proceeded to the identification and subsequent arrest of the band , those over 14 years, but not with age below that were only mentioned in these police custody as witnesses and accompanied by their parents.
The younger crowd came to seize jewelry, computer equipment, mobile phones, bicycles and various effects, which were delivered to an adult friend, who in turn sold it to another person, dedicated to drug trafficking, both also detainees, who drove him to introduce into the illicit market, eventually dividing the profit among the members of the band.
Specifically, researchers imputed to this band the robberies in 14 homes sites in the districts of José María Gate and San Felix, and the theft of a College of the District of José María de la Puerta and street setting Bruna Angel extension.
The officers managed to recover some of the stolen effects that were returned to their rightful owners.
With this police operation has been achieved deactivate a children's band, very active, taking advantage of their immunity from prosecution, was causing insecurity in the zones indicated, as sometimes some of the children were caught inside the homes of its inhabitants .
Those arrested were aged 14 made available to the Juvenile Court of Murcia, over 18 available to the Magistrate's Court in Cartagena in watchkeeping and those under 14 were released to their parents.
All authors were of Spanish nationality except for two who were from Uruguay and Lithuania.
The investigations were carried out by the Local Brigade of the Judicial Police of the Commissariat of National Police of Cartagena.
Source: Jefatura Superior de Policía de Murcia