Police have arrested the owner of a car wash in calle Jaén, 20 year old F. J. C. P, as the alleged perpetrator of the armed bank robbery yesterday at the Unicaja bank in calle Antonio Ferrandis ‘Chanquete’.
The robbery took place around noon on Thursday and the whole incident only took four minutes, during which time three shots were fired.
The attacker, wearing a helmet and brandishing a shotgun, fired into the ceiling of the bank in order to intimidate the employees into handing over the money. When informed that it would take ten minutes to open the safe, the robber grabbed a few coins and fled in an Audi which was double-parked outside the bank.
An hour later, the police located the getaway vehicle at a car wash in calle Jaén. After a search of the premises, police located the shotgun and helmet used in the robbery and proceeded to arrest the owner of the establishment. The car belonged to a customer of the establishment who had brought the vehicle in that morning to have it cleaned.
The detainee, who had been running the car wash for less than a year, has reportedly confessed to carrying out the robbery at the bank and is implicated in a further four similar armed robberies of banks and other establishments.
The investigation is still open and police are hoping that the detainee will lead them to his accomplices in the robberies.
Meanwhile, it was reportedly a very surprised car owner who came to pick up his car only to find police all over the place, dusting the inside of the vehicle for fingerprints and then towing the car away to the police compound.