Thieves targeting Costa Almeria 24-hour convenience stores under arrest

THREATENING: The robbers used a large screwdriver and a knife to intimidate shop employees CREDIT: Policia Nacional Almeria

POLICE have arrested two men suspected of holding up 24-hour convenience stores in Almeria city and getting away with more than €2,000.
Police believe the pair are the two robbers who with their faces partially covered entered an establishment in Avenida Cabo de Gata in the provincial capital at around midnight. The thieves grabbed the female shop manager around the neck, one of them threatening her with a large screwdriver and the other with knife.
They got their hands on the cash register and made off with nearly €1,500 in cash.

CREDIT: Policia Nacional Almeria

Two days later, and this time in the early hours of the morning, the thieves were in action again. On this occasion they got their hands on €550 from a business in Calle Instincion, but not before the shop employee put up quite a fight.
He whacked one of the robbers on the head with a metal tray and caused injuries to his nose and forehead. These were details which proved crucial to the subsequent identification and detention of the duo.
A patrol recognised the pair from the precise description given out by the investigating team and they were identified and arrested by uniformed officers in the street, one of the suspects still bearing the marks where the employee hit him with a tray.
Police named the two detainees as 24-year old A.A.M. and 37-year old A.C.V. They are being held in prison awaiting trial.

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Cathy Elelman

Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.

Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.

Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.

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