Forlì, going around with a wig and hat to defraud the elderly: a man reported

In recent days the Police of State a young man identified after a "scam" against a lady with the fake policeman technique, and has recovered gold and precious items. Since the beginning of the year they are There were numerous arrests and complaints made by the State Police for the fight against the phenomenon of scams committed against elderly people in Forlì.

The policemen of the Flying Squad, engaged in patrol to combat predatory crimes, they intercepted a car driven by a young man who was wandering between the houses; the man had numerous previous convictions for armed robbery crimes.

A detail caught the attention of the police; was on the car seat a hat and a “wig”. Given man's track record, i suspicions for his presence in the city and the area of ​​the city that in the past was exposed to the phenomenon of "scams" to the detriment of elderly people, the young man was taken to the police station for a search, which led to the discovery of numerous silver ingots, gold medals and bracelets, a gold watch, a wedding ring and even a baby's tooth.

The immediate investigations revealed that the previous day an elderly lady had reported having been scammed using the "fake accident" method. The woman told the police that while he was at home and received a phone call on his landline, to which the interlocutor, qualifying himself as belonging to the police force, he told her that his son was under arrest for an accident. The man added that to free his son he would have had to deliver money and valuables to a "lawyer" who would come to collect them. In panic and despondency, the woman has collected everything he had at home, including her husband's wedding ring, rings, silver ingots, watches and a gold necklace, and even a "tooth" of her son that she lost when he was a child, handing them over to the self-styled "lawyer" who showed up at the house.

The Flying Squad investigators they seized all the precious objects found and are waiting to return them to the victim.

The young man was reported for receiving stolen goods and faces up to eight years in prison. The man, resident outside the province, was also reached by anti-mafia prevention measures. In fact, the Police Commissioner has issued a ban on him returning to Forlì for the next three years.