
It was well planned, timed to coincide with children entering school in the morning, ensuring that most of the Policía Local were on school-crossing duty.
A man was arrested in Puerto Serrano (Cádiz) for holding up a bank armed with a knife. The surprising thing is that he did so without covering his face in a bank where he is a customer.
Two bank suspected robbers were arrested, one from Salobreña and the other from Molvízar, accused of three bank robberies.
The Guardia Civil has managed to identify the two suspects from the bank robbery that was carried out in Almuñécar on the 19th of April. One of the suspects, a 24-year-old from Málaga, has already been arrested.
Concepción Barreiro was unlucky enough to be standing at a bus stop in front of a bank in Aznalfarache, Sevilla, when a raid took place. The 54-year-old women was accompanied by her young daughter when she received a bullet in the head, fruit of the cross fire between Policía Local and bank robbers.
Very little information is available at the moment, but the robbery took place around 08:30 at the savings bank Unicaja in the Plaza de Madrid, whilst cleaning staff were still working. According to sources from the Policía Local, the thieves arrived on a blue scooter, carrying knives. The Unicaja branch later on in the morning…
The Guardia Civil and Policia Nacional carried out a joint operation that culminated in the arrests of two bank robbers accused of having carried out raids on the Banco Popular in Salobrena. These two men had burst into the branch, wearing hoods and carrying fire-arms on the 1st of July. A third member of the gang waited outside with the get-away car.
A part-time Malaga policeman was killed in a shootout with a SWAT team when they tried to arrest him on suspicion of a kidnap attempt of a local bank manager.