This is a Google translation of the story of Operation Chase – and 81 galgos.
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Stolen dogs that were not good for hunting were abandoned or cruelly slaughtered.
As a result of the continuous complaints made by people and municipalities, especially the Comarca of the “Moraña” of Avila, personally received and through the Government Subdelegation, which were transmitted to the Civil Guard on the issue of poaching in that region and the theft of dogs, especially GALGOS, led to the start of specific surveillance and police investigations at the end of the summer of 2016.
The investigation was initiated by the Judicial Police Organic Unit and the SEPRONA of the Avila Command, within the police operation called ‘Chase’, the same ones coincided with others that, driven by Environmental and Animal Protection Organizations, carried out by the Seprona of the Commander of Madrid, the reason why it was decided to realize the investigations jointly.
The first signs of these were the location of an animal abandoned by poachers in the town of Madrigal de las Altas Torres and the location of a group of poachers in aerial surveillance by means of a helicopter, which led to the detection of Falsification In the dogs – galgos – of their primers and illegal implantation of microchip, which allowed within the investigations over several months to determine the different responsibilities and way of operating this type of delinquency.
The modus operandi was as follows: after the removal (theft) of the Galgos, they were “tested” to assess their conditions and qualities for hunting. Those who were discarded for the practice of hunting were cruelly abandoned or sacrificed. Those who were considered valid were transferred to a veterinary clinic in Madrid where, after a small operation of surgery to remove the intramuscular microchip of identification, implanting a different one, which allowed the issuance of a Dog Health Card to name of the new “owner” of the animal.
These investigations, coupled with the location of two corpses of Galgos, one thrown from a third floor and one dead after being wildly beaten, as evidenced by a necropsy carried out by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, allowed the identification and location of the perpetrators, coinciding with the investigations carried out by the Civil Guard of Ávila.
One of the suspicions is that the ultimate aim of the robberies could be related to illegal betting whose object is hunting with Galgos.
During the development of the Investigations, seven persons have been arrested, and seven others have been investigated, including a Veterinarian, for Crimes Against Flora and Fauna, Documentary Misrepresentation, Robbery and Animal Abuse, with a total of 147 Administrative Complaints related to Hygienic sanitary conditions, and inspected 258 dogs.