Ferreira do Alentejo: Arrested for theft 250 kilos of olives.
Since the beginning of Operation “Country Insurance, taking place since last November, GNR already seized 3.750 kilograms of olive stolen in Beja District olive groves.
The Territorial Command Beja, Criminal Investigation through the core Aljustrel, on 19 January, stopped, in flagrante delicto, a man of 24 year old, by theft 250 kilos of olives on a farm in Ferreira do Alentejo.
After denouncing, the military have moved immediately to property theft target, eventually apprehending a person, in flagrante delicto, to make pick olives, which was accompanied by a minor 15 year old. In addition to the olive, It was seized a vehicle and an olive harvesting machine.
The detainee was accused constituted and subject to term of identity and residence and the lowest was handed over to family.
Since the beginning of last November, where the GNR has on the ground Operation "Field Insurance", Beja in the GNR district already seized about 3,750 tons olive. The previous case occurred on 31 of December, in Vidigueira, where GNR arrested three Portuguese citizens, aged between 18 and 33 year old, and seized 250 kilos of olives.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)