Totana Local Police have arrested a resident of the municipality, 26 years old who robbed the elderly through the "pull."
The man was intercepted when hidden under a hood and pretending to be Latino, approached an elderly woman in the street and snatched her purse after a struggle he was carrying, which contained 150 euros with which it would deal with bills water and electricity.
At that time, three Ecuadorians, local residents, who were in the vicinity, hearing the cries for help from the lady, went in pursuit of the offender, who overtook one of the streets of the town after a long chase and remained held until the arrival of local police.
The immediate personación agents Totana Local Police, alerted by neighbors, allowed him to be arrested and thanks to the intervention of these people avoided to get rid of the wallet containing the money had to rob the old, the which had been thrown under a vehicle to avoid linking him with.
The detainee was immediately brought to justice and taken to the offices of the Guardia Civil de Totana.
Thanks to the descriptions given by other victims of pulls and background information on the local police, you could allocate another crime allegedly committed by the same author, who had stolen two days earlier with the same modus operandi a bag containing more than 1600 euros and a mobile phone.
The alleged offender was not "signed" by the Guardia Civil had specialized in the assault on elderly gentlemen.
