He asked for money to return the smartphone to its rightful owner. But at the meeting, he found the police officers who stopped him and reported him for attempted extortion. The incident happened in Naples.
Yesterday afternoon, a man went to the San Giovanni-Barra Police Station to report the loss of his mobile phone. The man told that when he realized he no longer had the phone, he tried to call his own number from another smartphone and, at the same time, a person answered who, for the return of the device, asked him for money arranging a meeting near Corso San Giovanni a Teduccio.
Therefore, the agents went to Piazza San Giovanni Battista, the pre-established place for the meeting, where they identified and stopped a 42-year-old man, originally from Cercola, finding him in possession of the phone in question which was then reported for attempted extortion.