The members of a gang based on the outskirts of Seville were arrested this Tuesday for the death of a 33-year-old man who was shot in Chiclana this summer during a marijuana robbery, which is known in police jargon as overturning. However, this group was not just dedicated to stealing narcotics, but they planned big heists, with heavy loot, according to sources familiar with the investigation. In fact, they are involved in the assault on the house of the tonadillera María del Monte in the Sevillian town of Gines in August 2023, and they could also be behind the assault on the chalet of Sergio Ramos and Pilar Rubio, that same year, in Bollullos de la Mitación, also in the province of Seville. In both cases, the robberies occurred when the houses were occupied by relatives of the owners.
The leader of this group and ringleader of the organization, with the initials JFND, known by the alias Zoleta, is described by these sources as a security maniac. When the Civil Guard agents went to arrest him for the crime in Chiclana, he threw a short pistol out the window, loaded and ready to shoot. He slept with a large black machete hidden between the couch and the mattress, with the handle visible so he could pick it up if necessary, and in his bedroom he also had a sword hidden behind the bedside table, a double-edged dagger, a small ax used to throw it a certain distance, and a switchblade.
The arrest of the five implicated in the Chiclana crime, by the Civil Guard’s crimes against people and homicide team in Cádiz, was precipitated because investigators learned the suspects were planning a new coup. In this case, they had visited the house of an elderly man and were willing to use all types of violence to obtain the keys to open the safe and other valuables.
The violent rollover that left the man dead in Chiclana this summer earned them a haul of 30 kilos of marijuana buds, ready to sell, according to sources familiar with the operation. This drug would reach a price on the black market that could range between 45,000 euros and 57,000 in Spain, although that price would multiply in other European countries.
The case is in the hands of the Investigative Court number 1 of Chiclana, where those arrested this Thursday have been made available. The five detainees are charged with crimes of murder, membership in a criminal organization, illegal possession of weapons and robbery with violence in an inhabited house. The operation remains open and more arrests are not ruled out.
The assault in Chiclana occurred at five in the morning on August 8. Seven people entered “with extreme violence” the house, located on the Camino de la Perdiz, in the Pinar de los Franceses area. They were looking for a large amount of marijuana that they thought was unguarded and at a certain moment shots were fired “with at least two weapons,” as reported by the Civil Guard. One of those shots hit the owner of the house and caused his immediate death, in front of his young children and his 19-year-old partner. During the escape, the assailants stole the deceased’s car and took two large bags with marijuana.
The investigators then activated Operation Aguileo, which ended with the arrest of those involved three months later. The Civil Guard has compiled “numerous evidence” in 15 home searches carried out in Puerto Serrano (Cádiz) and the Sevillian towns of Guillena, Alcalá del Río, Carmona and Seville capital.
During these inspections, firearms and numerous knives were seized. Also a bulletproof vest, tools to open vehicles or locks, video surveillance cameras, night viewers or a multitude of cell phones, in addition to 1.7 kilos of marijuana buds and 365 plants of this same drug.
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