It was the Caserta traffic police who stopped the perpetrators of a scam that had been perpetrated a few hours earlier against a 74-year-old from Arlena Di Castro, in the province of Viterbo. These are two men aged 21 and 42 with numerous criminal records, both originally from the province of Naples.
The pair of criminals had managed to deceive the victim with a phone call, in which one of the two, pretending to be a police marshal, informed the woman that her son had been arrested after causing a serious road accident. The man had convinced her that to get him released from prison, she had to hand over all the cash and jewels he had at home to a policeman who would come and collect them directly from his home. In fact, immediately after the phone call a man showed up at the old woman’s door who, posing as a plainclothes policeman, had the victim deliver jewels worth 25 thousand euros. At that point the worried 74-year-old called her son to find out if he had been released, who, sensing that her mother had been defrauded, immediately alerted the police.
The military, investigating the matter, managed to trace the license plate of a car that some witnesses had seen wandering around the streets of the town.
Once the searches were launched, the vehicle with the two criminals on board was stopped a few hours later at the Caserta Nord motorway toll booth.
The two were charged in a state of freedom for complicity in fraud, while the stolen goods were seized waiting to be returned to the woman.
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