2024-03-23 13:40:25
BOLZANO. The traffic police blocked two on the Brennero-A22 motorway Peruvian citizens possessing a “jammer” used for thefts from parked cars in the service areas and a Pos used to make immediate withdrawals from credit cards stolen from motorists. The two – we learn – were identified following the reporting a theft committed on a vehicle parked at the service area “Garda Est”, in the province of Verona. The Trento Motorway Operations Center alerted all patrols on duty along the motorway, reporting a gray Opel Mokka as a suspicious car. The owls then managed to track the car to the“Paganella Est” service area north of Trento, where it was a new theft has just occurred. The two were chased to the service area “Laimburg is”dove they attempted a new coup.
Having noticed the agents, they then tried to flee: the first, on foot, was reached and stopped immediately, while the second, in a car, was intercepted by a traffic police patrol in northern Bolzano. The search revealed that the two were in possession of goods stolen in service areas of the provinces of Verona, Trento and Bolzano for a total value of approximately 7.000 euro, including laptops, bags and backpacks and other objects, which were then returned to their owners. A “jammer” device and a portable POS device were also seized. The two will have to answer to the charges of complicity in aggravated and continuous theft.
One of the two was also served with a decree of expulsion issued by the Police Headquarters of Bolzano as it is irregular on the national territory. Investigations are underway aimed at establishing the responsibility of the two Peruvians, coming from the Milan area, in relation to other thefts committed with the same modus operandi along the A22.
2024-03-23 13:40:25