SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 7th Jul (EUROPE PRESS) –
Officers from the Civil Guard of the Traffic Detachment of La Palma, with the assistance of officials from the Local Traffic Office, have apprehended a 38-year-old gentleman during the theoretical exams for acquiring a class B driving licence conducted on 23rd May after presenting himself using someone else’s identification document.
Additionally, operatives from the Investigation and Analysis Group (GIAT) of the Traffic Subsector of the Civil Guard of Las Palmas have looked into the owner of the mentioned ID card, a 29-year-old gentleman residing in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, as an indispensable collaborator.
The incident was uncovered in the examination venue of the Local Traffic Office of La Palma when the candidate, a resident of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, aroused suspicions regarding the potential use of another person’s ID, prompting the individual, upon realising he had been detected, to escape from the premises of the said Headquarters.
Subsequently, a hunt was launched by officers from the Traffic Group of the Civil Guard of the La Palma Detachment, who, following the necessary procedures to effect the apprehension and identification of this individual and in collaboration with officers from the Fiscal and Border Service of the Civil Guard of the La Palma Airport, successfully detained him while attempting to board a flight to Tenerife as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of assuming a false identity, by impersonating another individual.
The investigations have been concluded this week with the apprehension and inquiry of the ID card holder, executed with the backing of Agents from the Research and Analysis Group (GIAT) of the Las Palmas Traffic Subsector, as the alleged accomplice of the crime.
A police report on the investigated facts has been submitted to the Duty Magistrate’s Court in the judicial districts of Santa Cruz de La Palma and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
As stipulated in Article 401 of the current Penal Code, the offence of assuming a false identity is punishable by a prison term ranging between six months and three years.
Title II ‘On individuals held criminally accountable for offences’ of the existing Penal Code establishes in its article 28 that perpetrators are those who carry out the act independently, jointly, or through another person who acts as an instrument, as well as those aiding in its commission with an act without which it would not have been committed, subject to a prison sentence of three to six months or a fine from twelve to twenty-four months or community service of thirty-one to ninety days.
