The State Police arrested a 41-year-old from Mariano Comense (CO), with multiple criminal convictions, for robbery, resistance and violence against a public official. The man was also reported in a state of freedom for the unjustified possession of weapons and aggravated threats against of healthcare personnel.
The reports from the health workers of the SERT of Como to the officers of the Police Station of the S. Anna Hospital, recently strengthened, who complained about the aggressive behavior of a user, in fact caused by the demands to obtain greater quantities of “therapy”, behaviors accompanied by damage to office furnishings, death threats or to disfigure a doctor’s face with acid, ensured that yesterday morning, the police intervened in the SERT clinics.
The hospital centers are among the objectives of maximum attention in the prevention activity of the Como Police Headquarters as per precise indications of the Police Commissioner Marco Calì.
In fact, around 9.30 the 41-year-old from Mariana, a frequent user of the SERT in via Carso, showed up approaching him in his usual aggressive and threatening way, but also found the UPGSP agents waiting for him. In fact, as soon as the police ordered him to show his documents, the man began to resist, first by shouting and threatening and then by pushing and kicking with extreme violence.
The man’s violent reaction continued for a few minutes until he suddenly pulled a switchblade from his trouser pocket which he pointed to his throat and threatened to cut it.
At this point one of the officers, in compliance with the procedure, simply took out his supplied yellow “teaser” from its sheath, pointing it towards the man’s silhouette, telling him to drop the weapon to the ground. This was enough for the 41-year-old to give up his intentions and was taken to the police station.
Once at the police station he was identified, bringing out all his criminal and police records for various crimes against the person, property and drug law.
In the moments in which the man was at the police station, a second police car intervened at a supermarket in via Magenta where a robbery had taken place in the morning. The security guard reported to the officers that he had caught a man of about 40 years old stealing goods from the shelves and when he passed the checkout without paying, he had verbally attacked him, clearly threatening him, and quickly made his way to the exit.
The detailed descriptions, the time of the commission of the crime and the photographic recognition to which the witness was subjected, allowed the police to ascertain that the 41-year-old from Mariana was also responsible for the robbery committed in the supermarket.
Therefore, having informed the PM on duty of the events and the arrest, he ordered the man to be held in security rooms awaiting his trial, set for this morning at 11.00.