The individual has already been sentenced to a total of 19 years in prison. In the last theft he was arrested by people inside the car he was robbing. You are in pre-trial detention.
Antonio Martins, of 38 year old, known as the "Terror of Pedrogão", land where he lived in the municipality of Vidigueira, begins to be judged this Monday at the Court of Beja, for a dozen thefts committed, in homes and cars, in that Alentejo village.
The list of crimes committed by the individual, has led to him already being sentenced to a total of 19 years in prison, having been imprisoned between June 2012 and October 2020, but barely left Beja Prison (EPBeja) where on remand, returned to crime.
In the indictment of the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP) of Cuba that Lidador Notícias had access to, the "Terror of Pedrogão" is accused of 12 crimes some in the completed form and others in the attempted form, all aggravated by recidivism, and 7 aggravated theft crimes, 2 simple theft crimes, 1 crime of simple damage and 2 crimes of introduction in a place closed to the public. Knowing that the owners of the houses were absent from them, the suspect would get inside and steal everything he found, from money, material goods to food and beverages.
The defendant would be detained in 20 October 2022, when in the center of Pedrogão, broke the window of Noémia Ramos's car, former commander of the Volunteer Fire Department Vidigueira, and tried to steal the car radio and a coat valued at 1.000 euros, causing a loss of 165 euros to the owner of the vehicle.
When entering the interior of the vehicle, a popular person who had been the target of thefts by the suspect, locked him inside and called the GNR who stopped him. Present in court, the individual was subject to the coercive measure of obligation to remain in the dwelling, with electronic surveillance, but by virtue of having violated the same, a month later it was changed to preventive detention.
In order charge, the MP maintains that “the defendant demonstrates with his life path and successive criminal convictions in sentences that deprived him of liberty for several years, who did not conform their behavior to social rules”, adding that he has always lived “without having a permanent home or job and has not endeavored to acquire work habits that would allow him to have a source of lawful income”, justified.
It further determined that in view of the high number of offended persons and crimes for which the defendant has been accused “it proves essential for the discovery of the material truth to exceed the limit of 20 witnesses”, which in total will be twenty-three.
The judgement, before a Collective of Judges, is scheduled for this Monday morning at the Court of Beja.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
