An operation by the Carabinieri of the Mondragone Territorial Unit, triggered by a tip-off to the Operations Center, led to the arrest in the late evening of September 10 of a 31-year-old woman, originally from Nigeria, homeless and illegally residing in Italy, considered a serious suspect in the crime of theft.
According to the police's reconstruction, the victim, a 42-year-old man living in Naples, said he had picked up a young woman who had asked for a ride. After about a hundred meters, the passenger got out, and only later did the driver notice that her wallet, containing approximately €1,000 in cash, was missing.
A search was immediately launched in the area of Viale Michelangelo Buonarroti in Castel Volturno, and the Carabinieri located a person matching the description nearby. A personal search revealed €830 in cash, which was returned to the owner, and a small quantity of narcotics, determined to be heroin, which was seized for investigation.
The woman was identified through photodactyloscopic examination and arrested in flagrante delicto. Following the formal procedures, she was held in the Carabinieri holding cells by order of the judicial authorities.
The arrested woman's situation remains under review by the judicial authorities, and criminal responsibility will have to be determined with a final sentence.
