From the activity of combating the theft of agricultural vehicles and related equipment (in particular satellite GPS, of significant economic value), the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Cremona arrested a 46-year-old man as a suspect in receiving stolen goods, intercepted on the night of June 13th around 3.40 am in the countryside around Cremona.
The patrol had noticed a articulated lorry head towards an area where there are some warehouses. Suspicious of the unusual presence of that type of heavy vehicle at that time of night in such an isolated place, they followed it at a safe distance, up to the courtyard of an abandoned prefabricated building, where the truck stopped. Here the Carabinieri proceeded to check the vehicle and its driver, also in light of the fact that the the chain closing the sliding gate leading to the courtyard had been cut and a door of the shed was broken.
Inside, the Carabinieri found three parked tractors, one of which with the engine and lights still on, all without license plates. By ascertaining the chassis numbers it was possible to trace the owner of the vehicles, identified as an agricultural entrepreneur from Cremona who, when contacted, he immediately went to the scene, completely unaware of the theft suffered during the night. The man confirmed that he was the owner of the tractors and that he had used them until 8.30pm the previous day, before parking them in his company.
The entrepreneur then formalized the theft report and the military verified that the 46-year-old truck driver was expected in the shed by other people, who had disappeared at the sight of the Carabinieri vehicle and the controls. Their intention was to load and take away the agricultural vehicles.
The owner of the building was found to be uninvolved in the matter, as also demonstrated by the damage to the protection measures resulting from undue access to the property and by other signs of a previous inspection carried out by the gang.
The tractors, worth around 100,000 euros, were returned to the rightful owner and the 46-year-old, who was unable to provide any type of justification, was accompanied to the barracks to be arrested as a suspect of a crime for receiving stolen goods and subsequently placed in the Cremona prison, awaiting the validation hearing. This morning’s hearing ended with the validation of the act and the man’s release from prison. The investigation continues to identify any accomplices and trace the destination of the vehicles, probably the illegal foreign market.
The Carabinieri of the Provincial Command, constantly committed to combating this type of theft, which is particularly serious also because it significantly affects economic resources and the possibility of continuing an entrepreneurial activity, renew the invitation to report any element of suspicion detected by part of the farmers and breeders of the area, as already suggested to them during a campaign carried out with the “company to company” method by the Station Commanders, aimed at evaluating the forms of passive security of the companies and encouraging their connection to NUE112 to facilitate the timely intervention of the patrols present in the device at the time of the alarm.
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