Italian army Lt. Gen. Rodolfo Sganga, chief of staff for NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command Naples, helped catch a man suspected of snatching a necklace from a woman in the southern Italian city over the weekend, the newspaper Il Mattino reported Monday. (Cynthia Vernat/Allied Joint Force Command Naples)

NAPLES, Italy — An Italian general who serves under the U.S. Navy’s highest-ranking admiral in Europe and Africa recently helped catch a man suspected of snatching a necklace from a woman in Naples.

Lt. Gen. Rodolfo Sganga, the chief of staff for NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command Naples, was walking with his wife downtown on Saturday when he heard a woman screaming that she had been robbed, the Italian newspaper Il Mattino reported on Monday.

Sganga chased and caught the man at a nearby piazza. Italian police arrested the suspect and found the necklace in his possession, according to the Il Mattino report.

Italian army Lt. Gen. Rodolfo Sganga, chief of staff for NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command Naples, helped nab a suspected necklace thief over the weekend, according to Italian newspaper Il Mattino. (Facebook/Allied Joint Force Command Naples)

Sganga has served in his role under Adm. Stuart Munsch since January. Munsch is commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa and Allied Joint Force Command Naples.

Sganga also heads the European Union Coordination Element, according to his NATO biography.

The U.S. military presence in Naples includes Naval Support Activity Naples, which is home to U.S. 6th Fleet. The base hosts more than 50 commands and about 8,500 personnel, according to its website.