The State Police arrested two Italian citizens for two separate criminal episodes that occurred in the Municipality of Potenza. The first concerned the arrest of a 57-year-old originally from Naples for fraud against an elderly woman. Specifically, following the receipt of a call on the emergency line from a lady who reported a probable scam attempt in progress, the Flying Squad and the police officers of the Potenza Police Headquarters promptly started looking for the alleged perpetrators. The investigative intuition of the officers allowed them to identify a suspicious person when he was entering a building near Piazzale Praga, from which he left after a few minutes. The investigations carried out immediately made it possible to ascertain that in the same building where the subject had entered, a scam had just been committed against a lady from 1942, who had handed over a thousand euros in cash and various gold jewellery. The victim, in fact, had just been tricked into believing she was handing over this sum as compensation for the alleged delivery of a package to a neighbor whom she considered to be her son. The alleged perpetrator of the scam was therefore stopped and subjected to checks, following which he was found in possession of all the stolen goods just stolen from the victim, to which, upon reporting, it was immediately returned by the operators of the State Police .
On the same morning, Flying Squad personnel, employed in targeted services aimed at repressing predatory crimes, noticed the suspicious behavior of a man who entered several bank branches to carry out various transactions, all in different parts of the city. After yet another suspicious operation, the agents decided to subject the person who spontaneously handed over the three credit cards with which he had just made withdrawals to a check. They were found to be of dubious origin because the name printed on the cards was not the same as the stopped subject. The subsequent search of the vehicle used by the alleged perpetrator allowed the recovery of another 90 credit cards of dubious origin and the sum of 2000 euros in cash just withdrawn. The immediate investigations carried out by the staff made it possible to ascertain the furtive origin of a card used to make one of the withdrawals, therefore, the man of Neapolitan origins from 1976 was arrested for improper use of credit cards. The investigations are ongoing and the presumption of innocence applies to the suspects until a final conviction is reached.
