He deceived 50 thousand euros worth of precious items, including gold and credit cards, from an 84-year-old woman from Padua, then attempted to escape on board a train. But he was promptly identified and stopped by the Rome railway police as he returned to Naples. The protagonist of this story is a 16-year-old boy who was reported by the Padua State Police for fraud against the elderly.
He stole by deception 50 thousand euros of precious itemsbetween gold and credit cards, at one 84 year old woman from Padua and attempted to escape by boarding the train to Naples. But he was promptly identified and stopped by the Rome railway police as he returned to Naples. The protagonist of this story is a 16 year old boy who the State Police of Padua he reported for fraud against the elderly.
In particular, the policemen of the flying squad managed to identify him after a quick investigation and report him to their colleagues from the Rome railway police, who intervened promptly. surprised and stopped on board the trainwhen he was now sure he had gotten away with it.
The officers found him with the entire loot worth 50 thousand euros, made of gold and precious objects, money And payment cardswho had managed to get delivered by the victim, an 84-year-old elderly lady living in Padua.
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According to what has been reconstructed, the boy would have gone to the woman’s house and pretended to have been instructed by a phantom lawyer to receive the bail necessary to avoid prison for her son, falsely accused of having caused an accident.
A technique that unfortunately is very widespread and continues to work, doing many victims among the elderly who, often alone and defenseless, fall into the hands of unscrupulous scammers. As in the case of the 84-year-old, who, finding herself alone at home because her husband, just a year older than her, had been hospitalized for a few days, she believed the young man’s words and gave him what she could to help son.
After handing over the valuables and the papers, the woman he called 113 and told the officers the story. From here the investigations immediately began, also through the control of the images of the railway station cameras and the identification of the young man. Tracing the ticket purchased by the 16-year-old, the Rome Tiburtina police force was alerted and intercepted and blocked him.
Thanks to the collaboration between the Flying Squad of Padua and the Polfer of Rome, these have been carried out in recent months four arrests and minors used for scams also arrestedwhich cannot be attributed to the extortion crime, and for whom arrest for fraud is not foreseen. Nine fraudsters arrested in Padua in less than a year, another 16 reported to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
