Yesterday afternoon the agents of the Ischia Police Station, during the territorial control service, intervened in St. Joseph of the Cross Street in Ischia for the reporting of a fraud against an elderly woman.
The police officers, who arrived on the scene, found that a man, pretending to be her nephew, had contacted the woman by telephone announcing that an acquaintance would shortly be passing by. withdraw 4500 euros on his behalf; once he arrived at the victim's home, having become suspicious of the presence of some residents, he had moved away without withdrawing the money to on board a taxi.
The operators, thanks to the descriptions provided by the elderly woman and the residents, traced the crook on board the taxi and, once stopped, they blocked him after a fight.
AS, 23 year old Neapolitan, was arrested for attempted fraud and resistance to a public official.
Furthermore, he was also notified of the notice of initiation of the procedure for the application of the ban on returning to the municipalities of the island of Ischia.
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