Locride: huge seizure of drugs and weapons by the Carabinieri.

A real arsenal comprised of weaponry and war and common gun ammunition, a large quantity of marijuana, cocaine, heroin e hashish. This is the outcome of an impressive operation coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Locri Court and conducted in Natile di Careri by the Carabinieri of the Locri Company and the Calabria Hunters Helicopter Squadron, which led to the arrest of an 77 year old local.

During a broader service aimed at combating electricity theft, carried out together with verification technicians, which also resulted in two complaints on the loose for Theft aggravated, the military, having perceived a strong smell of marijuana coming from one of the homes being checked, they immediately decided to investigate further by carrying out a house search.

What the soldiers found once they entered the house was disconcerting: one of the rooms was completely sealed and used as a indoor greenhouse for the cultivation of Indian hemp. Dozens of packs containing a total of over 12 kg of marijuana already dried and ready for sale; 4,5kg of cocaine pure divided into different casings; 2 sticks of heroin of 500g each and almost half a kilo of hashish.

In addition to the large quantity of narcotics, partly inside a warehouse and partly hidden in a cavity, created ad hoc in plasterboard attic, the arsenal consisting of:

• 10 guns;
• a precision rifle with Swarovski optics;
• 4 machine guns, of which two Israeli Uzi brand;
• 4 semi-automatic rifles;
• a disassembled AK-47;
• 3 silencers;
• 45 magazines for various weapons:
• more than 6300 ammunition of various calibers.

Among the weapons found, almost all with abraded serial number, some emerged some subject to theft, committed in the provinces of Alessandria, Florence, Pisa and Pavia between 2009 and 2011, for which investigations are already underway to verify any connections with other crimes. The narcotic and the weapons were seized and made available to the Judicial Authority for subsequent technical-ballistic investigations.