Slot machines ‘cleaned’ of money, three arrested

One already had dozens of precedents for aggravated thefts. The other two were learning. Together they cleaned the slot machines of many shops in central Italy, before being arrested red-handed on Wednesday morning outside the ‘Va Tranquil’ tobacco bar in Fano. Yesterday at the Court of Pesaro the validation of the arrest of these three, all Romanians over 40, the gang leader resident in Italy (arrest validated, free but with obligation to stay in Lombardy pending the trial postponed to 20 May) and the other two just arrived in our country so much so that they did not even know a word of Italian (arrest validated, they too were free awaiting trial). Galeotta was the license plate of their car, memorized by a Rimini shop owner from whom the gang had managed to stealthily win 3 thousand euros a few days earlier. So when on Tuesday afternoon the cameras at the northern gate of our city sounded the alert to the Local Police of Fano for the passage of that marked gray Audi A5, the law enforcement control machine was immediately set in motion. “The gang made an inspection on Tuesday, to go into action the following morning – Mirco Falcioni, owner of Va Tranquil in Viale Piceno, told us -. They won 800 euros by taking advantage of the fact that in the old-fashioned coin machines (which are now being replaced), by inserting a wire together with the coin they manage to get the coin out of the cash register after taking the credit. So they play endlessly until they win regularly”. However, according to the law it is still aggravated theft by tampering with the slot. And so after half an hour of playing, at the exit the three found the police officers from the Fano police station waiting for them, who had been checking their movements since the day before. Game over. Tiziana Petrelli