A routine identity check in Foglianise led to the arrest of a man whose Carta d'Identita Elettronica was missing its integrated microchip, according to reports from local news outlets.
The Carabinieri Station of Vitulano carried out the check during normal identification operations. When the man presented his electronic identity card, officers found that the microchip embedded in the document was gone. NTR24, Vivere Benevento and Anteprima24 all report the same core account of the stop.
Investigators assessed the removal as intentional rather than the result of ordinary wear, and treated the card as an altered identity document. On that basis, the man was arrested on suspicion of possessing an altered identity document.
The case was referred to the Procura della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Benevento. The reported precautionary measure was house arrest, pending further decisions by the judicial authorities.
The reports do not identify the man. They do not give the exact time of the stop or describe the circumstances beyond a routine control, and they do not report any subsequent court decision.
Why a missing chip matters in this case is straightforward: the three reports agree that officers considered the card altered because the integrated chip was absent. The intentional-removal assessment comes from preliminary checks described in the reports. No technical evidence or judicial finding on how the chip was removed is included in the material available.
The arrest should therefore be understood as precautionary, not as a final determination. Vivere Benevento and Anteprima24 expressly note that the man remains under investigation and must be considered presumed innocent until a final conviction.
NTR24 places the operation within wider Carabinieri efforts in the Sannio area to counter the alteration and falsification of documents. No further details of those wider efforts are provided in the reports used for this article.
