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Date Published: 28/03/2022

ARCHIVED - Malaga man arrested twice in a week for trying to steal ham

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The thief was caught red-handed both times with legs of jamón under his arms

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Malaga man arrested twice in a week for trying to steal ham

Police in Malaga have arrested a 52-year-old man for the second time in a week after he was caught trying to break into a market in the city centre to steal Spanish hams.

The first time he was arrested was last Tuesday, March 22, when he was found carrying two jamones that he had allegedly just stolen from one of the stalls of a municipal market in the western part of the city.

He appeared in court on Friday March 25, and went straight back out and tried to rob the market again, this time accompanied by a woman to act as lookout. His latest robbery occurred at around 1am. It was raining but a neighbour saw him on the roof of the market and alerted the police.

When the police turned up, the man’s accomplice, who was crouched between two cars, warned the man but police caught him anyway. He was wearing the exact same clothes in which he was arrested the last time.

Police have nicknamed the man the ‘Spider’ because of his modus operandi of climbing over an adjoining traffic signal to access the marketplace.

The Spider was already known to police for his part in six robberies in the same market. In total, his criminal activity has caused economic damage to storeowners of 10,000 euros.

See also: Guest set fire to Malaga hostel room when the shower stopped working and graffitied on the wall in English

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