Identified by smell and arrested after stealing 26 hams from a restaurant in Granada

The Civil Guard has arrested a young man accused of taking 26 hams from the restaurant of a roadside hotel located in Albolote (Granada) and who was identified when he returned to the area to pick up his companions due to the smell emanating from the vehicle he used to commit the crime.

As reported by this armed body, which acted with the Albolote Local Police, the detainee is a 25-year-old young man with a criminal record accused of robbery at a restaurant in the El Torreón service area, located on the A-highway. 92.

The robbery occurred at dawn and the detainee, who acted with three other people, took 26 hams that have been recovered by the agents.

After the restaurant reported the robbery, the agents reviewed the images captured by the establishment's security cameras, in which the four involved were seen entering through a window and leaving with the hams.

In their eagerness to find the criminals, the agents paid attention to some voices that were heard from the area located in the opposite direction of the highway, for which they established a device to verify if someone there could have been related to the robbery.

They moved to the place and intercepted a tourist occupied only by the now detainee, who said that he had gone there to look for some friends..

In a thorough search of the vehicle, the agents noticed that it gave off a strong smell of ham and that the driver's attire and his physiognomy corresponded to one of the perpetrators recorded by the cameras.

Given the situation described, the young man admitted his participation in the events and told the agents that he had hidden the hams in a house in Atarfe. The other three involved fled on foot and have not yet been arrested..