Armed robbers who targeted brothels arrested
February 29th, 2012 - 11:37 am ICT by IANSMadrid, Feb 29 (IANS/EFE) Spanish police arrested 11 people, two of them minors, as suspects in several brothel robberies in the capital.
The arrested people, all of them Latin Americans, pretended to be customers to get the victims to open the door of the houses whereupon they violently barged in and threatened with guns the women and other people who were there.
After ransacking and robbing everyone in the house, they fled quickly, police said Tuesday.
The investigation was launched last month when police learned about a robbery that occurred in a brothel. After some investigative work, agents determined that they were dealing with an organized criminal group that specialized in violent robberies of houses used as brothels in Madrid.
The assailants carried guns and large knives, had their faces covered and wore gloves so as not to leave fingerprints.
After they barged into the homes, the attackers gagged and bound the hands and feet of the victims with telephone or electric cords.
They then took anything of value that they found inside the houses, including cash, jewelry, cell phones, computers and plasma-screen televisions.
During the robberies, the criminals communicated among themselves using pseudonyms and they call themselves the “Hermanos Latinos”, or Latino Brothers.
–IANS/EFE
rd
- Three women tortured, killed in El Salvador - Jan 16, 2012
- Four bodies dumped on side of Mexican highway - Mar 12, 2012
- Spain busts gang that ripped off drug dealers - May 11, 2012
- Mexico enacts witness-protection law - Jun 09, 2012
- Media worker slain in Venezuela - Nov 27, 2011
- Argentine radio host wounded in botched robbery - Mar 14, 2012
- Two armed robberies in Delhi - Jun 17, 2011
- Male sex slave ring busted in Spain - Sep 01, 2010
- Belgian car thieves, victims meet on Spanish beach - Sep 30, 2011
- Two bank robbers killed in Jharkhand gun battle - Feb 10, 2011
- Police chase in Brazil ends with six suspects dead - Mar 27, 2012
- Farmer, two sons held for killing daughter - Nov 29, 2011
- Prostitution racket busted in Spain - Feb 14, 2011
- Jeweller's house looted at gunpoint - Nov 30, 2011
- Family taken hostage, inspector shot dead by gangsters in UP - Apr 18, 2012
Tags: armed robbers, assailants, attackers, brothel, brothels, criminal group, electric cords, feb 29, fingerprints, gloves, guns, hands and feet, hermanos latinos, investigative work, knives, latin americans, plasma screen televisions, robberies, robbery, spanish police