The culprits are guilty of the internet and Ávila various payments: robaron 160,000 euros, etc.

The culprits are guilty of the internet and Ávila various payments: robaron 160,000 euros, etc.

La Guardia Civil ha disarticulado una banda que robó mis y causó daños en la network de la comarca del Valle del Tiétar, dejando sin internet a varios pueblos de la province de Ávila.

As part of the Cotietar operation, the territorial team of the Judicial Police and the posts of the Civil Guard in La Adrada and Candeleda arrested five people, three men and two women, accused of two crimes of robbery and otros dos de daños.

En cuanto a los de robo, estos han consistido en la sustracción de cobre de cable, valorado en 160,000 euro, través de los cuales ocasaron daños en la fibra óptica que ascienden a los de robo, los 200,000 desciendens s dias.

Cableado de cobre robado y la comarca del Valle del Tiétar

Civil Protection

The first incident occurred on October 18, when the Civil Protection service received a complaint from a telecommunications company, informing them of a fiber optic cut at kilometer 47.8 of carretera CL-501, Lanzahita. He stole a copper cable worth 30,000 euros.

Then, on October 28, a new case of copper cable theft was registered at the 57.53 kilometer of that road.

On this occasion, the authors stole 2.8 kilos of cable worth 130,000 euros. In addition, they damaged the fiber network and left several areas of the county without connection for a day.

Due to the seriousness of the events and the public alarm caused by the thefts, the Civil Guard launched an investigation that initially focused on two men from the area.

Yes, after these facts were confirmed on November 10 of last year, as a result of the investigations, the civil protection service caught 3 people while cutting the wire nearby, at a distance of 2.9 km along AV-930, queron detenidas.

In the same way, in the car used by the detained persons, several bags with cut copper cables were found, which allowed to confirm their involvement in the theft.

Investigations continued until two more people were identified and arrested, who were involved in the sale of copper stolen from scrap metal.

Thus, today's arrests made it possible to completely dismantle the group responsible for the thefts.

Finally, on November 12 last year, 5 prisoners were arrested by the court.