Drug dealer arrested in Catania: Over 200 grams of cocaine and other drugs seized

The action of prevention and contrast to drug dealing, carried out by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Catania, continues without stopping, with a series of services extended throughout the city, in whose wake it fits the arrest of a 39-year-old South American citizen, domiciled in Catania in via Umberto. Following a targeted information-investigative activity, the military of the Arma have hypothesized that the foreigner had undertaken a profitable drug trade, receiving his clients in Piazza Iolanda, where he agreed with them on the type, price and quantity of the drugs, and then collected the doses from his apartment in Via Umberto and delivered them.

To test their investigative hypotheses, The Carabinieri set up a dedicated service, in discreet mode, and began to keep an eye on his movements by camouflaging themselves among the crowd. The right moment to intervene came when the investigators They spotted him while, having received an order, he was going home to collect the drugs. So after following him from a distance, they arrived right in front of the door of the building on Via Umberto, the blitz has started: blocked and secured, The Carabinieri went up with him to his apartment on the second floor, where they naturally carried out a search.

Inside the living room, inside a drawer of a piece of furniture, The military found two bags containing 200 grams of cocaine, a bag with 10 grams of crack and a 50-gram package of marijuana, everything already divided into doses and therefore ready to be sold and that would have brought in over 15.000 euros to the coffers of crime. Furthermore, inside the house, The usual tools for dividing into doses, a precision digital scale and various packaging materials were also found. All the drugs found were seized, while the 39 year old was arrested and placed at the disposal of the Judicial Authority, which has the arrest was validated and a precautionary measure of prison was ordered for him.