Agents of the National Police in PalmaThey arrested last Monday two people of Spanish origin, a man and a woman, as alleged perpetrators of a continued crime of theft of electricity wiring of the public lighting of the Palmes neighborhoods of Son Ferriol, dry from the Real, Son Espanyol, Poble Espanyol and Polygon of Levante.
The agents of the National Police theft group received several complaints from different companies responsible for the maintenance of Palma Public Lighting accounting for the numerous electrical wiring.
The robberies occurred from the end of March to July in five neighborhoods of Palma, thereby affecting citizens since the streets were totally dark with the obvious danger and insecurity that this means, to which we must add the economic damage of the subtraction and subsequent restitution of the wiring.
The thieves always stole from the arches of the soil or air wiring, with More than a thousand meters cable for an amount of about 40,000 euros. It caught the attention that some robberies occurred in the same street.
In view of the facts, the agents of the National Police Robbies carried out an investigation, managing to find out that behind theft There was a couple, man and woman. The man had a police record for similar events.
The efforts verified that the man had been helped by the woman, who accompanied him to sell the stolen material, near a ton.
In this way last Wednesday, the agents managed to locate both the man and the woman, being arrested as alleged perpetrators of a continued crime of theft of electrical wiring from different streets of Palma.
Events like these have already occurred last year although they affected five other Palmesan neighborhoods.