BUSTO ARSIZIO – They don’t pay for the shopping at the discount store Aldi di Castellanza and are chased by supermarket staff. The agents of State Police of Busto Arsizio they hunt them down and discover that they are gods serial thieves with a “gang” of accomplices: in their car there were goods stolen from various sales points in Busto Arsizio, Coop, Lidl and Takko Fashion. In the end, four were arrested, all foreigners: they were charged with aggravated theft continued in competition.
The pursuit
The operation starts in the early afternoon of Friday 26 April a patrol of the State Policepassing near the Aldi supermarket in Castellanza, in the Buon Gesù area, notices some employees of the business chasing two people responsible for a theft that has just occurred. The agents of the Busto Arsizio police station immediately set out in pursuit of the two fugitives, a man and a womanwith the help of a crew from the Local Police of Busto Arsizio, who was passing by at the time.
The band
During the escape, the woman tries to get rid of the stolen goods, various foodstuffs worth over 100 euros, recovered and then returned to the commercial establishment. But the fugitives are stopped by the police. Who discover, speaking to the supermarket staff, that there were a total of six accomplices to the theft, five of whom had left without paying despite the cashier’s request to be able to check the presence of goods in their backpacks. So the patrols start looking for the other perpetrators, identifying them a third, in possession of the keys to the group’s carleft parked not far away.
The accusations
In the vehicle the officers found items of clothing still equipped with the anti-theft system and other goods stolen from the Aldi of Castellanza, but also in two Coop sales points in Busto Arsizio, Lidl of Busto Arsizio and Takko Fashion of Busto Arsizio. The three arrested people, accompanied to the police station offices to proceed with identification, arrive at that point joined by a fourth accomplice, who admitted of having taken part in the theft together with the others. The goods found will be returned to their legitimate owners while for i four arrested, all living abroadthe charge is of aggravated theft continued in competition.
