Nuoro, armed gang dismantled: State Police arrest six individuals responsible for robberies of armored vehicles and ATMs.

La State Police performed six precautionary measures in prison against as many individuals accused of belonging to a armed gang responsible for numerous assaults on armored vehicles and credit institutions.

The operation, coordinated by Public Prosecutor's Office of Nuoro and conducted by Mobile Squad of the Nuoro Police Headquarters with the support of the Central Operative Service and Siniscola State Police Station, represents the result of an intense investigative activity arising from a assault on the Mondialpol armored van happened last 13 March area Torpoint.

On that occasion, the band, after having fired several rifle shots to block the vehicle, she had managed to get hold of a briefcase containing 90 thousand euros.

Other attacks in Sardinia reconstructed

The investigations allowed us to attribute further responsibilities to the group criminal episodes, Including:

• theExplosive attack on the Oliena post office ATM, which took place on August 15, 2025;

• il coup against the State Monopolies of Pratosardo, where the gang, using a stolen vehicle as a battering ram, had stolen boxes of cigarettes worth 300 thousand euros.

During this last episode, for hinder the intervention of the police, the criminals had strewn the roadway with nails e two fake explosive devices were placed, simulating the presence of bombs.

Plans for new attacks foiled

The prevention activity set up by the Nuoro Police Headquarters has prevented further attacks that the gang was planning.

In particular, in August, investigators discovered that the robbers were ready to assault a armored van in transit on the SS 131 dcn, coming from Olbia and headed to Cagliari.

The members of the group had gathered in an industrial warehouse in Siniscola, with stolen weapons, explosives and vehicles, but thanks to the preventive diversion of valuables transport vehicles, the plan was foiled.

Dozens of thefts and seizures

During the investigations, the following were also reconstructed: numerous thefts of cars and vans in the provinces of Nuoro, Oristano and Sassari, means then used for the assaults.

The arrest operations, carried out at dawn, involved over 100 State Police operators, with the participation of Crime Prevention Unit "Sardinia", canine unit, from the Bomb disposal unit of the Cagliari Police Headquarters and Flight Department of Fenosu (Oristano).

During the searches, They had been found nails, power cutters, radios, cell phones, flashlights e part of the stolen goods, including some stolen cigarette packs during the robbery at the Pratosardo Monopolies.

In further checks, a large quantity of marijuana, about 300 kg, partly already packaged for sale.

All six arrested are residents between Orgosolo and Siniscola. Others four subjects were investigated for material and logistical aiding and abetting of the criminal group.