Fiumicino (Rome), Car Sharing Thieves. State Police Catches 2 Young Bosnians Using GPS Location

They had boarded a car from a car-sharing company, but not with the intention of renting it. After having forced it – presumably with a screwdriver – they had sped off at high speed from the Pyramid area. The two thieves of the “shared transport” were intercepted and arrested in Fiumicino, by the police officers of the Fiumicino Police Station and the Railway Police Subsection of Fiumicino Airport.

Their escape ended in Via Giulio Romano, where their accomplices found themselves surrounded by the police just as they were about to get out of the car.

Their journey was followed from above, step by step, by the Operations Room of the Police Headquarters, which, received the report of the theft from the owner of the car sharing company - remained in constant communication with the latter to follow, step by step, the car's path through the GPS geo-localization system.

Thus, shortly after the Sala Radio operator issued a note on the latest location of the vehicle – in the Parco Lonardo neighborhood – the officers of the Fiumicino Police Station and the Fiumicino Airport Railway Police Subsection swung into action, immediately stopping them and identifying them as two young men of Bosnian origin.

Inside the passenger compartment, the police officers then found a flat-head screwdriver, the dimensions of which perfectly matched those of the vehicle's lock, which immediately appeared visibly forced.

At that point, one of the two, faced with the evidence of the facts, began to inveigh against the policemen, pushing them in an attempt – which remained in vain – to gain his escape.

Both, at the end of the ritual activities, ended up in handcuffs because they were seriously suspected, in competition, of the crimes of aggravated theft and unjustified possession of altered keys and lock picks; one of the two - who had tried to rebel against the officers - was also arrested for the crime of resisting a Public Official.

The Preliminary Investigations Judge, at the request of the Prosecutor's Office, validated the arrests.