The Traffic Research and Analysis Group (GIAT) of the Traffic Subsector of the Guardia Civil in Huesca has arrested a 37-year-old man, resident in the region of La Ribagorza, as the alleged perpetrator of a serious resistance to an agent of authority offense. Six judicial warrants for search, arrest, and committal to prison were outstanding against him, issued by the courts of Tarragona and Zaragoza. The Judicial Authority has ordered his committal to prison.
On July 23, officers from the Benabarre Guardia Civil Post were carrying out a preventive security check for citizens in the A-139 road, near Graus, when they detected that a passenger car was avoiding the checkpoint and fleeing. The officers then launched an operation to try to locate the vehicle and its driver, although they were unable to intercept it, as stated by the Armed Institute.
The investigation then came under the hands of the GIAT of the Traffic Subsector of the Guardia Civil in Huesca. The car was registered in the name of a person who was already deceased, and the one driving it was his son, who had fled in 2023 from the prison in the town of Tarragona and against whom there were six outstanding judicial warrants for search, arrest, and committal to prison, issued by the courts of Tarragona and Zaragoza.
Given this situation, the officers organized different surveillance deployments with the aim of locating him and proceeding with his arrest. On October 7, members of the GIAT went to the home of the person sought. Noticing the police presence when he arrived driving the searched vehicle, the man set off fleeing on foot, but was caught and detained by the Guardia Civil officers.
At that moment, the alleged perpetrator began to struggle with the officers and several family members intervened to try to prevent the arrest, managing to get the suspect free from the police action. In view of the situation, reinforcements were requested from other Guardia Civil units and a security perimeter was established around the home.
While the fugitive entered the neighboring home with the intention of taking refuge, the officers managed to catch up with him again and subdue him, finally proceeding to his detention as the alleged perpetrator of a serious resistance to an agent of authority offense and in compliance with the six judicial warrants for search, arrest, and committal to prison issued by the courts of Tarragona and Zaragoza.
Three relatives investigated for obstructing the arrest
The investigation into what happened on the day of the arrest continued in order to determine the involvement of the relatives who hindered the work of the agents.
As a consequence of these proceedings, on October 28, statements were taken in the capacity of those under investigation from three people as alleged perpetrators; one of them for a crime of assault on an authority agent and the other two for a crime of serious resistance and disobedience. These are two women aged 62 and 41 and a man aged 71, all of them residents of the Comarca of La Ribagorza.
The GIAT of the Subsector of Traffic of the Guardia Civil in Huesca processed the appropriate proceedings, which were sent along with the detainee to the Tribunal de Instancia Plaza de Guardia in Barbastro. The Judicial Authority ordered the detainee to enter prison, while the three persons under investigation must appear before that judicial body when they are summoned.