Nocera Umbra: They board the train to steal but are discovered, a 16-year-old and a 20-year-old reported by the Carabinieri

The “flash” theft that two young people, a 16-year-old and a 20-year-old, committed on board a train, robbing a 58-year-old traveler, resident in Rome, of a tablet, was unsuccessful, but they were immediately tracked down and stopped by the Carabinieri.

The two young men, evidently with bad intentions, had boarded a train from Ancona to the capital at the Fossato di Vico (PG) train station. In fact, after just over half an hour on the train, they targeted an unsuspecting traveler who had placed her tablet on the seat and, taking advantage of a moment of distraction, stole it, before hastily getting off at the Nocera Umbra station. However, once the woman discovered the theft, she immediately became alarmed, linking the absence to the two young men she had already noticed wandering around in her carriage, and reported the fact to the Single Emergency Number – NUE – 112, immediately starting the search.

The timeliness of the report and description of the two young people, provided to the Operations Centre of the Gubbio Company (PG), allowed the search to be immediately directed to the station where the two had got off. Having learned the information, two Carabinieri from the Nocera Umbra Carabinieri Station, who were off duty at the time but had immediately made themselves ready, quickly managed to identify and stop the alleged perpetrators, who were hiding behind the public toilet area of ​​the station, waiting for a train to return to Fossato di Vico.

From the check carried out, the Carabinieri found the device that had been stolen from the traveler. The latter, once she reached the Roma Termini train station, filed a complaint for the theft, recognizing through a photographic file shown to her by the Carabinieri both the tablet, awaiting return to its rightful owner, and the perpetrators of the theft. Both, on the basis of such clear and relevant evidence, were reported at liberty to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Spoleto (PG) and to the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office of Perugia for the crime of aggravated theft in competition.