Rome, scams against people over eighty continue: the State Police arrests two subjects.

Rome, scams against people over eighty continue: the State Police arrests two subjects.

The first arrest was made by the Flying Squad investigators, in collaboration with colleagues from the Fidene District. A "Falchi" patrol, engaged in a service dedicated to combating this type of crime, patrolling the Tiburtina neighborhood, noticed a man who, after hastily parking an SUV and looking around several times, entered a building; a few moments later he came out of the same door with an object in his hand and, still cautiously, got back into the car and left quickly. The police followed the car and as soon as conditions permitted they ordered the driver to stop. The object that the officers saw taken out of the building was a small box of jewels. Proceeding backwards, the investigators discovered that the man, following the classic pattern of the phone call from the relative in difficulty, had had an 83-year-old lady deliver all the jewels he had at home; at the end of the investigations the man, a 56-year-old from Campania, was arrested because he was seriously suspected of committing the crime of fraud. The Prosecutor's Office then requested and obtained validation of the arrest from the Preliminary Investigation Judge.

The methods that led the officers of the San Giovanni District to arrest a 28-year-old, also of Campania origins, were identical. The policemen "hooked" a suspicious small car on the urban stretch of the A24 and followed it to a building in the Esquiline district; here the girl who was driving the car got out and, as in the previous case, she went in and out of a door. The officers stopped the 28-year-old and discovered that the jewels she had in her hand had just been handed over to him by a lady in her eighties who was convinced that she had thus helped her daughter and grandson in serious difficulty. The woman was arrested because she was seriously suspected of committing the crime of fraud. The GIP then validated the pre-cautionary measure adopted by the State Police.

In any case, all the suspects are to be considered presumed innocent, in consideration of the current phase of the proceedings or that of the preliminary investigations, until a definitive finding of guilt with an irrevocable sentence.