31 arrested for illegal online arms dealing
Monday, December 5, 2016 @ 11:27 PM
Officers from the Guardia Civil have arrested 31 people for buying and selling firearms illegally over the Internet. Operation Vulpes III, covering a number of Spanish provinces has dismantled two separate clandestine outfits and confisacted 124 firearms and more than 14,100 bullets, amongst other items.
The undercover operation, coordinated by Europol, was carried out by the Guardia Civil's Intelligence Section, with support in Seville, Barcelona, Vizcaya, Madrid, Murcia, Granada, Córdoba, Huelva, Jaén, Alicante, Tarragona, Badajoz, A Coruña and Almería and concludes the phase that began in April this year when police arrested a man in Albacete in possession of 23 handguns and 450 rounds of ammunition. He was found to be acquiring large quantities of detonating guns from countries in Eastern Europe and then modifying them in order to make them fire actual bullets, which he himself was manufacturing in a secret workshop in his garage, and then selling online.
Documents confiscated during the first phase of the operation allowed officers to identify a large group of people buying illegal firearms and ammunition over the Internet. This resulted in 31 separate properties being searched, guns, ammunition and gunpowder being confiscated and 31 arrests.
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