Five detainees from an Albanian gang for the death of a man in Castellote (Teruel)
The Civil Guard has dismantled a criminal organization with the arrest of 5 people for the homicide of a man on July 21 in the municipality of Castellote (Teruel), and another 2 for a crime against public health, all of them, both arrested as the victim, an Albanian national.
Likewise, the operation has dismantled three marijuana plantations in the surroundings of the Santolea reservoir (Teruel), with nearly 5,000 plants, in addition to a certain amount of plants and dried buds, the Civil Guard reports in a press release..
The events occurred on July 21, when a vehicle with French registration left two individuals injured with several stab wounds at the Health Center in the town of Más de las Matas (Teruel) to receive medical attention, before leaving the place with three occupants in the car. Of these two men, one died and the other was transferred with serious injuries to the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza..
At the same time, on the same night from July 21 to 22, another individual appeared with similar injuries in the town of Castellote (Teruel), user of a vehicle also with a French license plate.. This man was transferred by ambulance to the Más de las Matas Health Center, and later referred to the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza..
The investigations allowed the Civil Guard agents to locate, a few days later on the A-226 highway (Más de las Matas – Castellote), the vehicle that had left the deceased and one of the seriously injured at the Health Center, and arrest its three occupants.
In addition, they were able to verify that these French-registered vehicles were related to an investigation that began last March into three marijuana plantations located around the Santolea reservoir, near Castellote, “managed” and “guarded” by members of the gang Both the seven detainees and the deceased are Albanian men between the ages of 30 and 50. Five of the detainees are charged with a crime of homicide and serious injuries, one of them is also charged with a crime against public health along with the other two detainees for this same crime.