Youth arrested for stealing from Malaga hotel rooms by scaling the façades of buildings
Police have arrested a 17-year-old youth accused of stealing from several hotel rooms in Malaga city. The minor was caught after sneaking into the community swimming pool area of a residential development in the Monte Sancha district of Malaga city, which he accessed by jumping over a fence.
When homeowners found out he did not live there, they asked him to leave the premises, but he refused and lay down to sunbathe, leaning on a rucksack which turned out to contain stolen goods.
Police were called, who searched him and found numerous objects and documentation that were not his. They then discovered he was the alleged culprit who had been stealing from hotel rooms in the area after scaling the façades of buildings.
While the officers were identifying the suspect, the manager of a hotel in the eastern area of Malaga city turned up at the scene and explained to police that three rooms in his establishment had just been burgled in the early hours of that morning on Sunday 18 August. The same modus operandi was used in all of them where the thief would climb up the fence and gain access to the hotel via balconies - he would then steal any valuables he found in the rooms.