Rome, major police operation: 9 arrests, including drug dealers and a robber

Add to this nine more arrests to the budget of the State Police tightened controls in Quarticciolo, in whose sights have ended up, only in the last few days, a robber and eight drug dealers. Once again, despite the attempt to devise new methods of dealing, Flying Squad Falcons and Flying agents they have "pierced" their strategies, observing, documenting and breaking in on the square at the right time for catch them red-handed.

The latest trick discovered has been identified under the portico of Via Ostuni, where a comings and goings of lookouts directed customers towards modified plastic bottles with double bottoms, easy to unscrew to remove the dose of crack intended for the buyer. Other hashish wrappers they were instead hidden in cigarette packs “accidentally” abandoned on the ground.

Are the tricks discovered and neutralized by the Flying Squad officers, that have three young people arrested – one Italian and two of North African origin – from whose hiding places they were recovered over twenty grams of crack and hashish, divided into more than thirty doses. A few hours earlier, the same fate befell a twenty-two year old Tunisian, surprised at the corner of Palmiro Togliatti Avenue and he gave doses of drugs to passers-by.

Despite the attempted escape on board a car, after a short chase during which he tried to get rid of the wrappings, the young man was bloccato and found in possession of ten more doses of cocaine and hashish, Besides Cash considered proceeds of drug dealing. Some doses of cocaine were hidden in the gear lever.

Others four pushers have ended up in the sights of the Flying Squad Falcons, that, on board the "unmarked" motorcycles, have the lookout system was broken. Their watchful “eye” has spotted a small metal box leaning between the walls, where two drug dealers were stationed waiting for customers. Another couple was instead surprise in full sales activity a few steps from a newsstand.

Le “sentinels” for protection they failed to avoid the irruption of the Hawks, that have 20 doses of hashish and cocaine seized, ready to be sold. Added to the list a twenty-eight year old Italian, arrested and seriously suspected of robbery.

Pretending to be a homeless person, Has approached a couple asking for alms, and then attack them and flee after having subtracted a gold necklace and two wedding rings. The young man, already subject to the obligation to reside in the Municipality of Rome, Was caught while fleeing with the stolen goods still in his pocket.

Attention on Quarticciolo remains high: the controls of the State Police and joint forces continue daily, as part of a shared strategy in the Provincial Committee for Public Order and Safety. The goal is strengthen the presence of institutions e restore safety and livability to the territories more exposed to criminal pressure.