The National Police have arrested in Estepona three men, aged 18, 29 and 30, as alleged perpetrators of a crime of robbery with violence after they committed a beating, unconscious, a young man to steal his mobile phone. The victim was taken to a hospital, being treated for a broken jaw.
The events that motivated the investigation occurred days ago in the promenade of Estepona. A young man was assaulted by three men who, in order to steal his mobile phone, violently attacked him by punching and kicking him until he was unconscious on the ground. The victim was admitted to a hospital with a broken jaw, in addition to other injuries.
Agents attached to the UDEV of the Estepona Local Police Station began an investigation in order to locate and arrest those allegedly responsible. Thus, after the practice of numerous proceedings, the Police were tightening the siege on the alleged aggressors, finding the whereabouts of one of them in another fight, oblivious to the initial events, in a local address.
That first arrest led to the arrest of the other two implicated, who were located in subsequent days in the municipalities of Torremolinos and Estepona as alleged perpetrators of a crime of robbery with violence.
According to the investigations, the aggressors and their victim already knew each other before, having contracted the latter an alleged debt with those, they have specified from the National Police in a statement. The detainees and the proceedings carried out have been made available to the competent judicial authority.