The arrest concluded of Investigation Unit of the Operations Department Of Cremona after a dangerous road chase: a police patrol Carabinieri of the Cremona Radiomobile Station involved in an accident.
The evolution of events
In the first afternoon of Friday 19 April 2024shortly after 3pmthe Carabinieri received a report requesting help due to a scam in progress. This is once again the scam fake policeman and fake lawyerbut it ended badly for the scammers.
In the afternoon, a couple in their seventies received a suspicious call from someone alleged policemanwho informed them of a car accident caused by her daughter, where an elderly woman and her granddaughter were involved. Both seriously injured and with a desperate medical history.
Subsequently, the alleged lawyer contacted them confirming the story and stating that their daughter had it contacted for help. The fake lawyer has deceived the couple of people over seventy, telling them that to exonerate their daughter they would have to pay a large sum of money.
The victims of the scam, worried about their daughter, promptly responded grouped all the money kept inside the home with all the gold present too. Immediately afterwards, the scammer dressed as a policeman showed up at their house to collect the loot.
However, the two scammers committed a false step that worked in the victim’s favor. In fact, the fake lawyer, while the alleged carabinieri collected the gold and the money, called again to warn the couple that the daughter would not have been available and therefore they should not have called her for any reason.
This statement he obviously made make the two elderly men suspiciouswho promptly called their daughter to make sure she was okay, only to find out that he was at work and knew nothing about the alleged road accident. Therefore they requested the intervention of the Carabinieri of the Cremona Radiomobile and the Investigative Unit.
Carabinieri pursuit
Upon receiving the report, the Carabinieri rushed to the scene, where they found the two fraudsters inside the vehicle outside the house. The criminals, residents in the province of Naples, at the sight of the patrol they fled at full speed.
By doing so it is the chase startedwalking via Ghisleri, Freedom Square until you reach the intersection with via Brescia Where the Radiomobile patrol had a road accident. The fleeing car, continuing to dart dangerously between the vehicles on the road and opting for particularly risky overtaking maneuverscontinued up to Via Persico and the ring road, with the intention of reaching theentrance to the motorway toll booth.
Immediately after the accident, the police joined the chase of the fugitives Carabinieri plainclothes carwith the hope of stop the scammers. The Military have set a roadblock to prevent them from continuing beyond the motorway barrier and make them proceed towards Vescovato.
Despite the positive result of the attempt, however, the scammers rammed a military car to escape. Before reaching the highway barriers a vehicle from the Carabinieri However, he cut off the fugitives’ path, stopping them definitively.
The complaint
On board the car, in addition to the scammers of 41 and 53 years oldthey found the loot of approximately 1400 euros in cash with two rings and a gold trophy, then returned to the owners. The two scammers were arrested and then accompanied to the Santa Lucia barracks and subsequently transferred to Cremona prison. This morning, April 22, 2024, the hearing was held which validated his arrest.
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