The 'dream team' of the butroneros teamed up to rob trucks: loot worth 300,000 euros and 'sticks' all over Spain

If anyone was missing, it is because they were detained or dead.. The pata negra butroneros of Madrid joined together to deal various blows to trucks and transport companies in recent months. The criminal organization, which was made up of 8 people, fell in a joint operation by the National Police, the Civil Guard and the Mossos d'Esquadra.. They are accused of being responsible for 37 criminal acts and stealing merchandise worth 4 million euros..

Among the members of this gang, as police sources have confirmed to El Confidencial, there are very famous nicknames in this particular union, such as Lolo, Kun – with up to 6 arrests for robbery; or criminals like the two involved in a high-profile robbery with violence in August 2022 in a perfume shop in La Gavia (Madrid). The modus operandi of the detainees was always similar: they sneaked into warehouses where they knew there were trucks loaded with high-value merchandise, they looted them and quickly released the merchandise.. To do this, they put into practice an exercise that they master: they made buttons to enter the warehouses where the articles were or, failing that, they simply broke the locks..

Lolo, who grew up in the shelter of Goyito and who, without going any further, was the leader of a gang that fell in 2021 and that robbed chalets, was also known among agents for blowing up bank branch ATMs with explosives to steal money.. His history of violent assaults and police records is extensive and his methods are similar to those of the two La Gavia assailants..

The robbery of the perfume shop in the shopping center, which caused panic among those present, resulted in a theft of 250,000 euros after these two individuals broke into the establishment at gunpoint. The detainees even intimidated one of the shop assistants by pointing a gun at her directly.. Afterwards, they fled with the loot aboard a large displacement vehicle..

Several robberies, same pattern

The police operation that destroyed the Butroneros dream team took place on October 18 and took place in Madrid, Barcelona and Seville.. Among other police units, Group XXI, a team specialized in combating the crime of butroneros or aluniceros, participated in it.. The investigations began in the month of June, at which time investigators realized that several robberies had taken place that had the same pattern..

The dismantled network located trucks or warehouses in which there were high-value products that could easily be sold on the black market.. Then they got to work. When they did not directly take the tractor head of the trailer with the load, they resorted, as explained in a statement by the Madrid Police Headquarters, to stealing vans and license plates to avoid being detected while transporting the loot..

Among their most lucrative schemes is a perfume robbery in Alcázar de San Juan (Ciudad Real), where they took fragrances worth 300,000 euros; or the hit they carried out in September at another perfumery in Barcelona, where they left with merchandise valued at 350,000 euros. Another of their most profitable robberies occurred in Arganda del Rey (Madrid), where instead of stealing cologne and beauty items, they stole bicycles valued at 143,000 euros..

Drugs and weapons

The operation also culminated with three other arrests, as alleged perpetrators of a crime against public health, when cocaine, hashish, marijuana and pink cocaine were found in the records. In addition, 12,000 euros and some stolen vehicles were seized for the robberies. Likewise, the agents intercepted different firearms, electric and white weapons.

The 8 detainees were imprisoned as alleged perpetrators of the crimes of robbery, theft of a motor vehicle and license plates, falsification of documents, against public health and membership in a criminal group.