Two women, aged 16 and 21, were arrested in the Lisbon parish of Santa Maria Maior, by the PSP, due to the crimes of Qualified Theft, Simple Theft, Payment Card Abuse and Document Forgery.
According to a note sent by the PSP’s Lisbon Metropolitan Command to the newsrooms, these two “insightful and discreet” women circulated on the Lisbon Metro lines and approached “automatic transport ticket vending machines, offering help to users to purchase or top up tickets”. “During this process, they took the opportunity to identify potential victims, memorizing the PIN code of payment cards whenever this was the method used”, it can be read.
“Subsequently, in a cunning and subtle way, they followed the victims on metro journeys and, at the most opportune moment, took their wallets, with the respective payment cards used moments before”, explains the PSP.
Already in possession of the cards and knowing the respective PIN codes, the two young women “went to commercial establishments where they purchased electronic goods, items of clothing or beauty and aesthetics services”. “It was common to make these purchases through the acquisition of gift cards, which they would later use, days later, in various stores, spread across the city of Lisbon”, specifies the note.
On Thursday, October 23, it was possible to locate and intercept these women, “at the time they were purchasing two iPhones 17 Air, worth €1,249.99 each, using payment cards stolen that same day, at the Baixa-Chiado metro station”, belonging to a tourist.
According to the PSP, a total loss estimated at around 14 thousand euros was found, distributed among six victims of the illicit actions of the two female pickpockets.
The detainees were presented to the Judicial Authority for the purposes of the 1st Judicial Interrogation, and the most serious measure of coercion was decreed, preventive detention.
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