Spanish police are hunting thieves who stole gold-covered sex toys worth more than €16,842 each from a factory.
As well as the 24-Karat gold vibrators, the masked men made off with nearly €25,000 in cash from a safe after plunging the area into darkness by cutting electricity cables before breaking in.
The intruders struck just after 11.30pm on Wednesday night at an industrial estate in Carmona near Seville.
The premises targeted belonged to erotic items wholesaler Dreamlove.
Local reports say seven gold and steel vibrators were taken in all, with the more expensive sex toys valued at up to €17,000 and the ones made with the cheaper material up to €3,000.
The intruders are said to have used the same modus operandi employed in another two previous break-ins in the area.
'Rare and easily identifiable products'
A spokesman for the firm that was targeted told local media it would be difficult to sell them on the black market because they are “rare and easily identifiable products".
In January 2020 police on the Costa Blanca arrested a woman who stole a box containing 40 sex toys from a shop.
Video footage released by cops showed the suspect walking in through an open door and making off with the box of Satisfyer G-spot stimulators.
Detectives who made the arrest described the premises as a business premises that had just taken delivery of the sex toys, although in the video released by police it appeared to be a shoe shop.
They revealed at the time she had sold some to a “massage centre” and others to locals in the town of Callosa de Segura near the holiday resort of Torrevieja where she was arrested.
Around half the 40 sex toys were recovered, although unconfirmed local reports say many had already been used by the time they were retrieved.
