The Rock Team of the Civil Guard of the Las Palmas Command arrested last April 29 to a 57-year-old person as the alleged author of one crime of fraud, two crimes of robbery with force in things and two crimes of theft by uncovering a plot in which it is suspected that the arrested person was selling the cattle that other people were stealing from cattle farms on the island of Gran Canaria.
The investigation began as a result of the complaint filed by a rancher from the municipality of Teror on February 5 in which he informed the Arucas Main Post of the theft of 49 goats worth about 4,300 euros. For this reason, the Roca Team of the Civil Guard, within the framework of the Plan against theft in agricultural and livestock areas, began the appropriate inquiries to clarify the reported incident and confirmed that it was not an isolated incident, since there had been up to three more affected by similar events in which the signs pointed to the authorship by a young man known in the world of cattle breeding in the Canary Islands, still whereabouts unknownfurther increasing the value of the subtractions.
The Civil Guard carried out an exhaustive monitoring of the movements of this type of cattle, locating the alleged perpetrator in whom it was suspected that the stolen animals were being transferred illegally. between farms in the southeast of Gran Canaria, beginning an intense investigation and discreet surveillance that bore fruit when they intercepted a man at the door of one of the farms that they used as a clandestine cattle ranch.
This fact was confirmed when they found inside the trunk of his vehicle a goat dying, tied head and legs, next to a raffia sack with a butchered animal of the same gender. After confirming the suspicions of the Roca Team, they immediately released the animal and it was transferred to an animal shelter in Fuerteventura which were in charge of healing her and her care until resolution by the competent authority.
Livestock farm inspections
With the investigations, the Civil Guard was able to find out how the cattle that had been stolen were being sold illegally in any way, dead or alive, breaking all health regulations, with the risk that this entails for the integrity of people, which is why which the corresponding inspections were carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary Islands. The corresponding administrative records were drawn up for the infractions observed.
In addition, it so happens that in one of the inspections part of a goat with its identification ear tag from Fuerteventura was located, turning out to be cattle denounced by a cheese-making company on the island of Gran Canaria for having acquired them from the same young man for the exploitation of cattle worth 72,000 euros. However, he did not recover the agreed cattle, these acts constituting a crime of fraud.
The Civil Guard concluded that it was a network between the young cattle breeder, his partner and the detaineewhich profited from theft and subsequent sale, offering not only livestock but also any type of products related to the sector such as machinery and feed, even advertising them on the Internet, which is why injured were located even on the island of Tenerife, an extreme that was reported to the competent police unit. From all of this, the appropriate police proceedings were carried out, which were brought to the judicial disposal of the corresponding Arucas Court on Duty, although open investigation continues in order to locate the rest of those involved in the plot.
