The arrested person damaged the cars with a carpenter's spike, profession that had exerted until his retirement
Agents of the National Police have arrested an 82-year-old man from Murcia, who is charged with 19 damages in the neighborhood of Carmen, by scratching vehicles that were parked on the public highway, mainly between the Streets Pintor Juan de Murcia and Castillo de Olite.
At the end of April, the district police station El Carmen began to receive several complaints where the injured parties stated that having parked their vehicles in the streets of the district and when they are ready to pick them up as they presented considerable damage since someone had scratched everything The side and the hood of their cars.
The first investigations carried out by the Judicial Police Group of the District Commissariat led the agents to carry out a preventive plan and devices of surveillance before the alarm that was causing in neighbors of the zone and concretely between those of the streets Painter Juan Murcia and Castillo.
These preventive devices bore fruit upon being surprised, the perpetrator of the facts, in an ingratiating way by the agents that were part of the surveillance when a vehicle scratched.
At the time of the arrest, a small metallic object was pierced, which he threw at being intercepted by the police.
This object turned out to be a carpenter's pick;
This being his former office.
The operation has culminated in the arrest of the author of the 19 reported damages;
Causing harm to the complainants of more than 10,000 euros.
No further claims of vehicle damage are ruled out.
The author is an 82 year old male of Spanish nationality and neighbor of the area.
The police operation was carried out by the Agents of the District Commissary El Carmen, of the Higher Chief of National Police of the Region of Murcia.
Source: Jefatura Superior de Policía de la Región de Murcia