Peppino Puligheddu, 60, originally from Orgosolo, exercised his right to remain silent when he appeared this morning before Nuoro investigating judge Giovanni Angelicchio. The man, represented by lawyers Paola Marteddu and Giovanni Angelo Colli, chose not to answer the judge's questions during the preliminary hearing. The investigating judge confirmed the precautionary prison order.
Puligheddu limited himself to providing a brief explanation regarding his escape , which began last Tuesday and ended on Friday, claiming that he had only left "temporarily" to take care of some horses, and that they would have difficulty with his arrest, adding that he had no intention of permanently evading justice.
The 60-year-old was arrested on Friday He had been missing for two days and four days on the run. He had been unavailable Tuesday morning, when officers showed up at his home to execute a precautionary custody order issued by the investigating judge as part of the investigation by the Nuoro prosecutor's office and the Barbagia police into the armored car gang, which is charged with the Torpè robberies last March and an attempted robbery of the Battistolli armored car in August, which had been dismantled in the previous days.
Puligheddu, identified by investigators as the alleged leader of the group, voluntarily handed himself in early Friday afternoon to officers from the Nuoro Flying Squad , with the support of the Olbia Police Station in San Teodoro, putting an end to a brief but intense manhunt.
Michele Carta (41, from Siniscola), Riccardo Mercuriu (30, from Mamoiada, represented by the lawyer Francesco Lai), Antonio Saccheddu (35, from Orgosolo, represented by the lawyer Margherita Baragliu), Alessandro Dessolis (41, from Orgosolo, represented by the lawyer Stefano Murgia), Giovanni Piras (29, from Orgosolo, represented by Carmelino Fenudi), and Pasquale Musina (49, also from Orgosolo, represented by the lawyer Riccardo Floris) had already been arrested. Puligheddu is currently being held in Badu 'e Carros prison.