Rome: Fake Carabiniere Arrested by State Police. He Had Left Prison Just Three Weeks Earlier
"Your son was arrested for robbery. Now he cries desperately asking for your help", this is how a forty-year-old Neapolitan - who pretended to be a marshal - tried to deceive his victim
Rome: Fake Carabiniere Arrested by State Police. He Had Left Prison Just Three Weeks Earlier
With the fake carabiniere technique had deceived aelderly after simulating the voice of his desperate son on the phone asking for help. A man who ended up in handcuffs forty year old Neapolitan, until just three weeks earlier in prison for defrauding another victim.
This time, however, while he was fleeing convinced he had pulled off yet another scam, he found the Colombo Police Station Policemen, who surrounded him just outside the building.
He still had in his pocket the “loot” of jewels that he had managed to get the victim to hand over to him in order to “exonerate” his “robber” son.
It all started with a call to the old lady's landline by a self-styled marshal, who told the woman that her son had been arrested for committing a robbery on board his own car and that, in order to release him, it would be necessary to pay a sum as a fine.
The victim's initial distrust and hesitation was overcome by a desperate cry that could be heard through the receiver.But is it my son Mauro?“. That name was enough for the scammer to understand how to carry out the scam. That's how that cry of despair became more and more insistent until the woman, in a panic, gave up all resistance asking the self-styled policeman what he could do to save his son since he had no cash at home.
Faced with the request to collect all the gold assets she was holding, the victim quickly recovered approximately 200 grams of yellow gold, remaining in constant telephone contact with the man, who in the meantime prevented her from ending the call until he became aware of the jewelry the woman had with her.
That's when it came into play. the accomplice, a man of robust build who, as the self-styled marshal had anticipated a few minutes earlier, showed up at her door with a phone in his hand on speakerphone: on the other end of the line, the alleged “colleague” and the sirens of the police.
At that point the victim, placing in him the hope of hugging her son Mauro again, handed him with still trembling hands an envelope containing everything she had managed to recover. Only in the moments immediately following, when she saw the door close, did she realize that Mauro – with whom she had not even spoken up to that moment – was probably not in danger.
His screams of anger mixed with desperation, however, attracted the attention of the police officers at the Colombo police station., who from the courtyard of the police station, where the victim's kitchen window looked out, understood that something had happened.
In the moments immediately following, dividing themselves between the woman's home and the streets immediately surrounding it, they understood what had happened. Shortly after, the man - a forty-year-old Neapolitan - was surrounded by the police. He still had in his pocket the "booty" of jewels that he had managed to get from the victim to "exonerate" his "robber" son.
The Judicial Authority, at the request of the local Public Prosecutor's Office, validated the actions of the State Police.
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