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Nearly double compared to 2022: 118 arrested for timber theft in La Araucanía reported

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Acomprehensive plan against organized timber theft crimeis what various institutions are implementing intargeted areasof theLa Araucanía region.

Carabineros has arrested 118 people for crimes related to timber theft. Nearlydoublethe number from 2022 at the same date.

This was confirmed by thehead of Operations of La Araucanía for Carabineros, Colonel Richard Gutiérrez, who specified thatcheckpointsremain in place on various routes.

Among them is theroute between Lautaro and Curacautínand from there toVictoria, an area with high traffic of forestry trucks.

by the same date in 2022, 66 people had been arrestedfor this crime.

That is whypatrols and controls will continueon the routes wherefrequenttimber theft from various properties has been detected.

Additionally, the aforementioned plan against organized crime has the support of various institutions that, within their respective areas,also apply the corresponding sanctionsaccording to the specified crime.

Source:www.biobiochile.cl