The Civil Guard of the Main Post of Yaiza arrested on March 15 three people, two of them 35 and 26 years old, for a crime of theft after being intercepted with 350 kilos of sea bass from the Playa Quemada fish farm, as La Voz advanced on Thursday.
A worker from the fish farm was the one who raised the alarm to the Civil Guard, seeing how three people were traveling in a small boat moving away from the marine cages, in the direction of the coast where an all-terrain vehicle was waiting for them.
The Civil Guard deployed a location device following the instructions of the fish farm worker, who was following them from their departure. As a result of the rapid response, the all-terrain vehicle initially identified by the witness could be located.
The agents surprised them at the moment they were preparing to introduce the basins with the sea bass into a private home in Playa Blanca, verifying the Civil Guard how effectively inside the vehicle there was also a folded inflatable boat and several fishing gears, next to other basins with sea bass of very similar weight and size. All this without complying with the corresponding hygienic-sanitary conditions
Once the illicit origin of the fish was verified and the complaint was formalized in police stations by those responsible for the fish farm, one of the sea bass was opened, inside which there were still remains of the feed with which they are fed and which is for exclusive use.
Therefore, the Civil Guard proceeded to investigate the three men, two of them with previous police records for the same offense, with the circumstance that they had already been apprehended in 2019 by members of the Civil Guard of Yaiza for having stolen sea bass in the same fish farm with the same modus operandi.
In addition to the sea bass, the fishing gear and elements were seized for their provision to the judicial authorities. The 350 kilos of fish seized were delivered to a non-profit association of public utility, since it complied with the hygienic-sanitary guarantees for its donation and possible food use.