Rome: Blitz in Tor Bella Monica. “The Cocaine Tree”, the pushers' hideout discovered by the State Police

A den dug into the trunk of a tree used as drug hideout: it is the secret storage room discovered by the agents of the VI Casilino District and the flying squad during the last State Police blitz in Tor Bella Monaca.

From via Camassei to via Capitini they took place in a short time you are arrested.

Among undergrowth, raised walls and "guard" cars used as a depot for the sale, the agents have over 70 doses of cocaine and crack were tracked down and seized ready for retail sale to their customers.

To end up in handcuffs 43 year old Roman, already subjected to the regime of arrest and intercepted by the police while he was passing through Albert Schweitzer Street, and five pushers of North African and Roman origin aged between 19 and 34 years.

The dynamic crystallized by the agents is the same: first the supply, then the exchange of drugs and money. Everything happens under the aegis of posts or lookouts stationed, on foot or on board a car, at the corner of the street.

What varies, however, is the hiding place: at one time the den is hidden in the concave base of a tree trunk, at another time on a raised wall, invisible to the eyes of passers-by.

The secret passage did not escape the attention of the agents, who in both cases burst in immediately after the exchange between the pusher and the customer.

The judicial authority has the work of the State Police has been validated.

The effort put in by the Rome police headquarters in the activity of extraordinary control of the territory in the suburbs, which is part of a targeted security strategy prepared for the Jubilee Year, will continue without interruption in its aim of preventing any spread of illegality in the urban fabric.