In two years he stole 22 bicycles and scooters in Treviso, a serial thief arrested by the local police
Since 2022 he has been collecting as many as 22 complaints for aggravated theft of bicycles and electric scooters. He favored models of a certain value, affecting the entire municipal area of Treviso, but, in particular, in the historic center between the bus station and Piazza Duomo. The serial thief, who has become a nightmare for cyclists, has been arrested.
A 28-year-old Moldovan citizen in handcuffs
The officers of the judicial police unit of the Treviso Local Police Command, after having collected the various complaints, have reconstructed an evidential framework also through city video surveillance images, filing with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Treviso a timely and substantial evidentiary file from which serious evidence emerged against a single subject. Based on these, the prosecutor requested and obtained precautionary custody in prison from the investigating judge. And so a few days ago the officers in via Castello d’Amore executed the precautionary custody order in prison against the 28-year-old BI, of Moldovan citizenship, but resident in Villorba. Who, therefore, was taken to prison in Santa Bona, at the disposal of the judicial authorities.
He resold the stolen vehicles in Mestre to buy drugs
“The thefts were serial and had caused real social alarm in the city – confirms the commander of the Local Police, Andrea Gallo – For this I thank the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which supported the investigative work of the Command. The complaints were fundamental in prosecuting the perpetrator who always adopted the same technique. Once the vehicle to be stolen was identified, the lock was forced and taken to the railway station, from where the suspect often took the train to Mestre to sell it to some thug in order to collect money to then contact drug dealers”. “In a couple of cases – adds Gallo – the owners of the stolen bikes filed a complaint after reading a sign left at the scene by the officers because evidence of a theft had emerged from the video surveillance. The sign left by the Command officers carried this message: “If you can’t find your bicycle here, contact the Local Police Command because it has most likely been the subject of theft”, a simple but effective method for prosecuting those responsible for bicycle thefts”.
