A Porsche Cayenne and a 500 Abarth stolen in Palermo and Catania were found and arrested in Modica: a 37-year-old was reported to have received the stolen goods.

MODICA – Police found 2 cars reported stolen in Palermo and Catania. In one of the inspected workshops, officers discovered a Porsche Cayenne car being repaired. From the first investigation, the car was found to be stolen in Palermo in 2021, when it was confirmed that the owner of the workshop was not involved in the event. It turned out that the luxury car was brought to the workshop by a 37-year-old man from Modica, who had asked for work to be done that had already been completed.

Therefore, the officers decided to look for the person who had brought the car to the garage, who was stopped about two hours later, in the streets of the city, inside a Fiat 500 Abarth model.
This other car was also checked; by doing a careful analysis of the chassis numbers and other identification numbers of the car, in a fruitful collaboration with the car’s parent company, the Police found that a Fiat 500 was also stolen in Catania in 2019. Said’s car carried fake chassis numbers as they were they have been stamped with the marks of another car, still on the circuit and registered to the brother of the person who was driving it.

The 2 cars were seized by the court and handed over to a special company, while the 37-year-old was reported to the court authorities for receiving the first car and for recycling the second. Further investigations are underway to track down the perpetrators of the theft and to verify whether the seized vehicles are part of a more complex and wider scheme aimed at giving a second life to stolen vehicles, which were previously “cleaned” by skilled people and put on the market illegally. sales at a much lower price than the market price and thus attract a large audience of buyers.