The Carabinieri of the Palagianello station, on the morning of May 20th, in execution of a precautionary measure order in prison issued by the investigating judge at the Court of Taranto at the request of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office, also arrested the third recipient of the measure, a 39-year-old from Taranto, the only one of the suspects to have remained at liberty after the operation of 17 May, in which the other two accomplices, all presumed responsible for home burglaries against the elderly, in various municipalities in the Province of Taranto.
The searches for the young man, which continued uninterruptedly until the morning of May 20, allowed the soldiers of the force to track him down along the streets of Taranto, aboard a car.
The investigations, conducted by the Palagianello Carabinieri Station and the Grottaglie Police Station, in synergy with the Taranto Public Prosecutor’s Office, made it possible to reconstruct various episodes of theft, in which the three suspects would always have used the same modus operandi, i.e. pretending to be employees of ENEL or the Aqueduct and, under the pretext of having to read the meter, distracting and keeping the victim busy, they would have managed to enter the victims’ homes, from which they would have stolen cash, jewellery, watches and furnishings.
All the victims in question are elderly and live alone, circumstances which certainly make them more vulnerable to this type of crime.
The last of those arrested was also taken to the Taranto prison at the disposal of the instigating AG.
It is important to underline that the possible responsibility of the suspects will have to be ascertained with a final sentence, until then the presumption of innocence will apply.
