Numana: Aggravated fraud against an elderly woman, 38-year-old arrested in flagrante delicto

The Carabinieri of the Numana Station have a thirty-eight-year-old originally from Campania, already known to the police, was arrested in the act of committing aggravated fraud. During a service aimed at combating and repressing the phenomenon of fraud against elderly people, the military, in the Marcelli district of Numana, They checked a rental utility car. The search of the vehicle allowed us to find cash and jewelry whose origin the driver was unable to explain.

However, they had not arrived, to the Operations Centre of the Osimo Company and other departments of the Marche, reports of scams or thefts. Starting from a woman's name engraved inside a wedding ring found in the car, the Carabinieri quickly the victim was identified, an 84-year-old pensioner from Numana, who, in fact, confirmed that she had been the victim of a scam, inside her own home.

The old ladyIn fact, she had received a call on her landline, in which a man, pretending to be her nephew, had announced the imminent arrival of a person, to whom the woman would have to hand over all the available cash, for the balance of a computer, purchased and never paid for, in order to avoid possible complaints for the boy. After about half an hour, he showed up at the lady's house the man, later arrested, who, with artifice and deceptioni, had convinced her to give him 680 euros and gold jewelry, with an approximate value of 3.300 euros.

The victim was very happy when the Carabinieri returned everything that had been stolen from her through deception, including some jewels of considerable sentimental value. Investigations are underway to identify any possible accomplices. The arrest follows the one last November, when in Sirolo, again, the soldiers of the Numana Station managed to stop two women and a man of Campanian origins, who on that occasion had also defrauded a 91-year-old local woman, with a technique similar to today's one. After being photographed, the arrested person was taken to the Ancona District Prison and the arrest was validated by the Preliminary Investigations Judge, who ordered the precautionary measure of detention in prison.