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BEWARE: NEW MOBILE THIEF TRUCKS * Europe: "Modus Operandi" against trucking
* Europe: Thieves stealing cargo from moving trucks?
(Video from ODN, Report by Sophie Foster - Jun 12, 2012: Police have released footage of a Romanian gang attempting a truck robbery whilst speeding along a motorway in the dark)
-- In an audacious move, cargo thieves in Europe appear to have started pilfering loads from the top of moving trucks... Cargo security specialist Freightwatch International reports that the new modus operandi (MO) has been seen in Italy and may be occurring elsewhere in Europe, although it cautions that for the moment reports are anecdotal... Dubbed the 'Romanian MO' after a string of incidents in recent years, it involves the use of specially-equipped vans that open the rear doors of trucks in transit to allow acrobatic criminals to climb aboard and steal boxes, which are then thrown to accomplices in a following vehicle... Freightwatch now reports details of a theft which hit the headlines in Italy and involved a shipment of cosmetics in transit on the Brescia-Bergamo-Milano (BreBeMi) A35 highway which - in a variation of the Romanian MO - was accessed via the roof...
London, EN, UK - Securing Industry - 28 Feb 2016
Labels: cargo theft
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