Mazara del Vallo: Cocaine and crack dealing, a criminal arrested with drugs and explosive material

The police officers of the Flying Squad and the Police Station of Mazara del Vallo have A fifty-two-year-old man from Mazara del Vallo, with a criminal record for drug-related crimes, was arrested for possession with intent to deal, and was found at home with a large quantity of cocaine and crack.

The current judicial police activity is part of a strategy of contrast aimed at repressing the flourishing drug dealing activity, conducted in the popular districts of the Municipality of Mazara. In the last few days, investigators had started a discreet observation service on the subject, indicated by several sources as normally dedicated to the sale of drugs in that municipality.

The offender was checked just outside his home; the check was later extended to his home, which was searched allowed the discovery of approximately 250 grams of cocaine, 35 grams of crack, material used for packaging and weighing the drug, as well as the total sum of approximately 2000 euros, in small denomination banknotes, probable proceeds of drug dealing.

Furthermore, inside his home, the man illegally held a real “Santabarbara”. The police found and seized a homemade fuse weighing 550 g, as well as 40 Cobra 6 firecrackers. In consideration of the seriousness of the facts and the criminal prejudices, the arrested man was taken to prison. At the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Marsala, the competent GIP validated the arrest and ordered the precautionary detention in prison.