Gang of four broken up by National Police in Valencia

A GANG of four including a Bulgarian and his wife have been arrested by the National Police for allegedly committing at least 19 burglaries in Pamplona, Valencia and Zaragoza, stealing mainly cash and jewellery.

The leader of the gang paid one individual €1,000 per week to walk around different cities early in the morning in order to identify potential properties which they could break into later, which they did on a regular basis, forcing locks or using skeleton keys.

The gang kept the stolen property as well as the ‘tools of their trade’ in separate storage rooms and the leader of the gang regularly removed jewellery from storage to sell to a contact in Madrid and he was en route to make a further sale when he was arrested in Valencia while his wife and two accomplices were arrested soon after.

When police searched the storage rooms they discovered cash, jewellery, masks, lock picking equipment and other tools as well as a firearm which was known to have been stolen from the home of a member of the armed forces.