A judge in Almería has ordered the imprisonment of a woman accused of having committed up to five robberies against elderly people to whom she had posed as a caretaker and to whom she had given sedatives and opioids to make them lose consciousness. One of the victims, aged 90, died after being poisoned.
The Investigative Court number 6 of Almería, acting as guard, ordered the entry into prison of the woman, detained by the National Police in the framework of a previous investigation, accused of five crimes of robbery with abuse of trust in competition with four crimes of injury and another of homicide. She is also accused of a crime of illegal possession of weapons, as confirmed by TSJA sources.
Sources in the investigation have indicated that the woman would have acted, at least, between March and November of last year when she would have gone to the homes of the victims, all residing in the capital, posing as a caretaker of the unit or a domestic worker.
According to the investigation, the arrested woman would have chosen elderly people who lived alone or were in a dependent situation, in some cases with barely any family members, to be able to carry out her plans, a sense in which she also presented herself to them. dressed like a professional in the sector.
Based on the evidence collected by investigators, the woman would have gained the trust of the victims through previous conversations to offer them her services, so that once she managed to access the homes, she would have allegedly supplied them with benzoadiazepines or similar drugs. to make them lose consciousness.
The woman would have taken advantage of this situation to steal cash and jewelry from the victims, all men, while they were unconscious. In this sense, she would have taken more than 15,000 euros and jewelry in the successive robberies, without being able to take anything in one of them, according to the police investigation.
For their part, the victims were later found by their relatives in a state of intoxication, so they had to be transferred to a medical center due to the injuries that the ingestion of psychotropic drugs would have caused.
Some were hospitalized for several days and the last of them even died on December 19 after more than three weeks at the Torrecárdenas University Hospital, where she arrived due to poisoning due to ingestion of methadone and benzodiazepines allegedly supplied by the accused, who was He would have brought several envelopes with money from his house.
The investigation initiated to clarify the facts led to the search of the accused's home on January 31, in which medications similar to those the victims had taken, as well as cash and jewelry, were found. Agents also found a pistol, a magazine and plenty of ammunition.
The arrested woman's defense lawyer, Francisco Ferre, has indicated in statements that the case is still in an "embryonic" phase, meaning in which he considers that there is still little evidence to attribute to the accused the facts of which she is accused and that are still under investigation.
Along these lines, it has shown its reservations while waiting for new tests to be carried out and the appropriate forensic reports to be carried out within the framework of the investigation led by the Investigative Court number 5 of Almería.
