Rome: Drug Delivery Driver Arrested, He Delivered Drugs to Homes to Watch Lazio-Napoli.

“I’ve arrived for the delivery – open the door and I’ll come up!”. This is how a telephone conversation began, intercepted by a plainclothes officer of the XV District Ponte Milvio, engaged last weekend in public order services on the occasion of the match Lazio-Napoli.

As a drug rider, 33 year old Italian with criminal record he stopped in front of a building in Largo Diaz to notify a customer of your arrival.

The arrest red-handed

When the front door of the building opened, the officer followed the man inside. As the pusher took the elevator, the officer took the stairs to get there first. On the second floor, a fellow tenant was waiting for him at the door with some banknotes in his hand., ready for the exchange. Realizing that in front of him was a policeman and not the expected drug dealer, he tried to move away, but just at that moment the Drug “rider” arrived on the landing.

When the agent qualified, the pusher reacted with an elbow to the face, attempting to escape down the stairs and trying to to free itself from the wrapping it was carrying. After a violent fight, Was blocked by the officers who arrived as reinforcements and identified.

The search and the seized material

The customer's statements and the subsequent house search confirmed the police's suspicions. In addition to the drugs found on the pusher, the following were seized from his home:

• about 30 grams of hashish and cocaine,
• a bottle of liquid THC,
• six metal knuckle dusters,
• a telescopic steel truncheon,
• four homemade fireworks,
• a bulletproof vest.

Given the gravity of the facts, the judge validated the arrest. Man is now at the house arrest with electronic bracelet and will have to answer for the crimes of drug dealing, assault and resisting a public official. He was also reported for possession of explosive material.