CATANIA – Aggravated robbery, thefts from homes and cars as well as possession for the purpose of dealing of narcotic substances intended for the benefit of a person detained at the Catania prison in Piazza Lanza.
These are the accusations that brought 5 subjects to prison: a 43-year-old, a 53-year-old, two 59-year-olds and a 66-year-old, thanks to the “Dietro Le Mura” operation whose investigations, coordinated by the Catania Prosecutor’s Office and carried out by the local Flying Squad – Section for Crimes against Property and the PA Anti-Robbery Team, have made it possible to acquire, in the state of the documents and in relation to a procedural phase which has not yet allowed the intervention of the defence, elements which would demonstrate the involvement, in various capacities and with different profiles of responsibility, of all the suspects in a series of mainly criminal activities predatory.
It all starts from a robbery committed on 6 June 2022 inside the car park of the San Marco hospital by three subjects, one of whom was armed with a gun, who arrived on two motorcycles.
In particular, the investigative activities made it possible to fully ascertain the entire course of the criminal action, committed to the detriment of an employee of the company responsible for collecting the money contained in the automatic cash registers for the payment of parking and in particular to identify is 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 unloading operations had been completed; both the three subjects who would have been responsible for implementing, once it was certain that the withdrawal of the money, for a total sum of 2,165.00 euros, had been successfully carried out within the parking area, the phase of actual robbery, is the one who would have played the role of basemanidentified as the 43-year-old.
In the continuation of the investigations, in addition to corroborating the circumstantial framework regarding the same forty-three-year-old, it was also possible to identify the 53-year-old 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.
In response to the investigations, on 6 September 2022, the 43-year-old man was arrested in flagrante delicto for the possession of two pistols and two machine guns with related ammunition in a warehouse where he had access to them.
The Judge for preliminary investigations, at the request of the Public Prosecutor in charge 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 ritual formalities, were translated to the prison in Piazza Lanza to be made available to the AG
