A 32 year old Italian, V.S.A., has been arrested in Las Lagunas, Mijas in a joint National Police and Guardia Civil operation, accused of carrying several bank robberies on the Costa del Sol. He always wore a cowboy hat and sunglasses and became known as the cowboy hat thief. A police statement said a search of the detained man’s home found clothes alleged used in the robberies. He’s believed to have carried out a robbery from a savings bank in La Cala de Mijas in February 2011 where he escaped with 33,000 € with another person. He is also thought to have robbed a bank branch in the Calahonda de Mijas urbanisation last August where once again two people entered the bank, and a third waited in the car outside. Pistols are used to intimidate the workers in the banks, and the same day as the Calahonda robbery he assaulted a bank in the Paseo de los Tilos in Málaga City, although here the booty was just 90 €. The arrested man will appear in the Instruction Court 3 in Fuengirola and the operation remains open as the police try to identify and locate the other members of the group.
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