Juan Carlos Tejera and José Antonio Perera were allegedly attacked by the same people. This has been confirmed to La Voz by the Civil Guard, after the National Police made public this Friday the arrest of 5 people for the kidnapping and murder of Tejera in March 2015. Of those 5 people, 4 had already been previously arrested by the Civil Guard, for the assault on the home of carpenter José Antonio Perera in La Florida. In fact, they were in pre-trial detention when they were arrested and charged with this new crime. As for the fifth, she was arrested by the National Police in La Gomera, although she allegedly belonged to the same gang, based in Tenerife and with "links" in Lanzarote.
According to sources from the Civil Guard, it was during their investigation into the assault in La Florida that they found evidence that later proved fundamental in clarifying the murder of Juan Carlos Tejera, which occurred 10 months earlier. It was a fingerprint, which put the National Police on the trail of Tejera's alleged murderers. And although the investigations were carried out by different police forces, the Civil Guard specifies that it is "usual" for there to be collaboration to solve these cases.
Thus, three months after the Civil Guard arrested several members of this gang, who were placed in pre-trial detention last March, four of them were arrested again by the National Police, while already in the Tahíche Penitentiary Center. These are J.C.C.H., 46 years old, N.D.P.P., 38 years old, A.E.G.G., 46 years old, and A.D.D., 36 years old. Added to them is J.A.D.R., 60 years old, the only one who was not in the Tahíche prison when he was arrested and who was arrested on the island of La Gomera between June 15 and 17, according to the dates provided by the National Police.
All the detainees are of Spanish nationality, some residing in Tenerife and others in Lanzarote. Furthermore, according to the Police, all had records, "both police and judicial, for different types of crimes".
The Civil Guard continues to investigate their possible participation in other crimes
It should also be remembered that the Civil Guard, although it considers the gang dismantled, continues to investigate, as it believes that they could be responsible for other similar events that occurred on the island, and whose investigation is in the hands of the Benemérita. Among them, it found indications of their possible participation in two robberies committed in Lanzarote in 2013, in which great violence was also used.
Both the murder of Juan Carlos Tejera and the assault on José Antonio Perera caused great commotion in Lanzarote due to the brutality used by those who perpetrated them. In the case of Tejera, the National Police explained this Friday, after the lifting of the secrecy of the summary, that he was "kidnapped" under the belief that he kept a large amount of money. After more than a week of searching in which land and air units and the canine unit participated, his body was found hidden in a cave in the Argana Alta landfill. He was "shackled" hand and foot and showed obvious "signs of violence", recalls the National Police.
In the case of José Antonio Perera, his assailants were also looking for money and also gave this carpenter strong blows, who was seriously injured after the assault and died two months later, after suffering a thrombus. His assailants even applied electric shocks to him. After the attack, he was rushed to the Doctor Negrín hospital in Gran Canaria, with fractures in his arm, ribs and skull. He had to undergo several operations and remained in intensive care for two weeks. He was finally discharged, but died shortly after.
