Catania, robbery and arrests: assault in the hospital car park

May 23, 2024, 07:01

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CATANIA – The assault was carried out on the damage of an employee of the company responsible for collecting the money of the San Marco hospital. A robbery committed on 6 June 2022 inside the car park by three subjects, one of whom was armed with a gun, who arrived on two motorcycles.

The provision

At the disposal of District Attorney’s Office, the State Police of Catania executed an order for the application of a coercive custodial measure, issued by the investigating judge of the Court, against five subjects: a 43-year-old, a 53-year-old, two 59-year-olds and a 66-year-old.

The hypothesis of a crime

The charges are aggravated robbery, thefts from homes and cars as well as possession for the purpose of trafficking of narcotic substances intended for the benefit of a subject detained at the Catania prison Piazza Lanza.

The investigation

The investigation conducted by the Flying Squad ascertained how the contents of the automatic tills for parking payment were taken away and in particular to identify both the accomplice who would have been entrusted with the tasks of waiting for the arrival of the victim and of remotely observing the phases of withdrawing the money until the moment in which the unloading operations had not been completed.

Both those, three subjects in total, who would have been responsible for carrying out, once they had the certainty that the withdrawal of the money, for a total sum of 2,165 euros, had been successfully carried out within the parking area, the actual robbery phase, be the one who would play the role of basemanidentified as the 43-year-old.

Drug

As the investigations continued, it was also possible to identify in the person of the 53-year-old another of those who would have been the material authors of the crime, as well as acquire circumstantial elements regarding a further criminal activity concerning the supply of narcotic substances of the type marijuana And hashish and telephone equipment, in favor of an inmate held at the Piazza Lanza institution.

A couple of months later, as a result of the investigations, we had, the flagrant arrest of the 43-year-old man for the possession of two pistols and two machine guns with related ammunition at a warehouse in his possession.

Precautionary measures

The Judge for preliminary investigations, at the request of the Public Prosecutor owner of the relevant investigation file, finally ordered the application of the precautionary measure of precautionary custody in prison towards all the suspects, who, after completing the formalities, were transferred to the prison of Piazza Lanza.

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