National Police agents have arrested in Arrecife two men and two women between 30 and 33 years of age and of Romanian nationality, all of them with police records, as alleged perpetrators of crimes of illegal detention, coercion, threats and theft. It was the complaint of a woman of Romanian nationality that uncovered the presence of "an itinerant criminal group based in Lanzarote", according to the Police.
The complainant stated that at the beginning of the year she had been hired by two families to take care of the respective children of 8 months and 12 years of age, so she decided to move to the Canary Islands from her country of origin, Romania. Since then, she was allegedly subjected to "constant threats and coercion, even being held in the family home located in the capital of the island for days." Finally, "in a carelessness of these, the woman managed to ask for help from a patrol of the National Police."
From this body they explain that "an investigation was then initiated that allowed to uncover the presence on the island of an itinerant criminal group of Romanian origin and that operated on the island, where they had a safe house in Arrecife and several rental cars." All the members of the aforementioned group, formed by two men and two women between 30 and 33 years of age, were arrested as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of illegal detention, coercion, threats and theft.
With the mandatory judicial order, the agents carried out a search in two homes in the municipalities of Arrecife and Órzola, where numerous perfumes, bags, wallets, high-end mobile phones and tablets were seized, which allegedly had been stolen "carelessly" in shops on the island.
The police investigations allowed to verify that the detainees have an extensive itinerant criminal career in our country, which began in 2004 in Palma de Mallorca and extends through numerous tourist areas of our geography, from the Costa Brava to the Canary Islands. All of them have been repeatedly arrested by members of the National Police, Civil Guard and Mossos d'Esquadra.
After the corresponding police report was prepared, the detainees were placed at the disposal of the competent Judicial Authority. The police intervention was carried out by agents of the Arrecife Police Station.