Rieti: He flees to escape a roadblock, 40-year-old reported

The Carabinieri of the Rieti Station have a forty-year-old from Rieti was reported at large for the crimes of resisting a public official, false declarations or attestations in documents intended for the Judicial Authority, causing alarm and simulating a crime. The man, already known to the police, was travelling on board a van on the SS4 Terminillese where he was ordered to stop by some military personnel of the Carabinieri who, at that moment, were carrying out a checkpoint.

At the sight of the Carabinieri, rather than stop, he suddenly accelerated and took off in a hasty escape which led to a brief chase through the streets of the capital, following which he managed to cover his tracks by hiding the vehicle among other cars along the road. The subsequent investigations, also carried out through the viewing and analysis of the images extracted from various video surveillance systems present in the area, together with the information provided by some people who had witnessed the incident, allowed the military to identify the fugitive.

The man, in the days following the chase, by simulating the theft of the vehicle he was driving on that occasion, he had also induced the owner of the vehicle to file a theft report. For these reasons, was denounced to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rieti for resisting a public official, false declarations or attestations in documents intended for the judicial authorities, causing alarm and simulating a crime.