By Cathy Elelman • Published: 04 Apr 2020 • 17:26
RESULT: Officers detained the suspect four hours after the school reported the robbery. CREDIT: Policia Nacional Almeria
NATIONAL POLICE in El Ejido arrested a man suspected of breaking into a local junior school and making off with computer equipment just hours after the theft. Officers investigating the school’s report of the robbery found the thief had forced open a metal blind and a window to get in. He got away with two desktop computers, screens and keyboards, as well a printer and a laminating machine. But just four hour later police detained the suspect. Officers also recovered all the stolen items from his home.
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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.
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