Casoria: Wrong-way pursuit on the ring road and resistance to a public official, 2 arrests

If we asked the two Carabinieri of the Casoria mobile radio section what prompted them to approach two men and a woman in a car, in a supermarket parking lot, the obvious answer would be “surgical masks and black hoods”. Little room for interpretation, the 3 were not stopping to do the shopping. And the cold and anti-covid measures had nothing to do with it. In a hypothetical interview, to complete the picture, the carabinieri would also add a front license plate with different numbers and letters than the rear one.

Casoria, supermarket parking lot, via Padula. The two soldiers they exchange a glance and, without speaking, flashing lights and sirens. In response, one of the doors of that somewhat battered Mazda 6 station wagon bursts open. One of the 3 runs away on foot, the other two are already in third gear, with the tire tracks left as a trail. The driver of the car Japanese take the outer ring road towards Casavatore, then he reverses, going the wrong way, risking hitting other motorists.

Once they reach the junction with Provincial Road 527, they take an access ramp still going the wrong way and they end up in a head-on collision with a Lancia Y driven by a 32-year-old woman. The carabinieri are behind them and will block them after a futile attempt to escape on foot. The 32-year-old was taken to hospital by ambulance and then released with injuries that will heal in 5 days. In the fugitives' car, burglary tools and some food items presumably stolen from parked cars. The two license plates used will later be the subject of two separate thefts, committed in the San Pietro a Patierno neighborhood and in the city of Castellammare di Stabia.

The two fugitives ended up in handcuffs, arrested for resisting a public official and unjustified possession of false keys and lock picks. They are now in custody, awaiting trial.