Rome: 5 arrests in the last few hours for drug and firearms crimes.

Rome: 5 arrests in the last few hours for drug and firearms crimes.

Rome. The attention of the police officers of the Rome Police Headquarters towards crimes relating to drugs is always high, 5 people arrested in the last few hours for dealing and possession of an illegal weapon.

The policemen of Commissariat Flaminio Nuovo and the XV Ponte Milvio District, during normal patrolling, they stopped a motor vehicle with two men on board, a 45 year old and a 39 year old Italian. During the check, one of the two threw a weapon while trying to escape, but he was promptly stopped by the officers. The weapon found is one “Beretta” brand pistol, with serial number abraded, complete with magazine and ammunition. The two were arrested as they were seriously suspected of possessing an illegal weapon and resisting a public official. Subsequently, thanks to the checks carried out, it emerged that the The 39-year-old was the recipient of a detention order for the sake of over 3 years issued by the Attorney General of the Republic at the Court of Appeal of Rome for drug-related crimes.

Always the agents of Flaminio Nuovo police station, in via Veientana, they arrested a 19-year-old Italian seriously suspected of possession for the purpose of trafficking narcotic substance such as hashish and marijuana and resistance and injury to Public Official. Came to know about a drug dealing businessor put into place within a Municipal Park, the cops noticed the 19-year-old while extracting a plastic bag from under the ground and then hide it inside the pocket. Stopped for a check, the man went berserk trying to escape and starting a fight. Once blocked was subjected to a personal search and they were found inside the pocket 100 grams of substance and 980 euros in cash.

The investigators of X District Lido of Rome have noted how, more and more, crime uses people who have never had anything to do with justice in order to perpetrate crimes related to drug dealing. To Ostia, in fact, during specific territorial control services, the police arrested a 25 year old Italian citizen with no criminal record, found in possession of 400g of Hashish. The narcotic was found both inside the house, hidden in shoe boxes, which is in a cellar, hidden between large glass containers. After several hours of observation, the police, noticing a man taking something from near the car on several occasions, they intervened and subjected him to checks. During the house search, they were also found at the arrested person's home precision scales and instrumentation for cutting narcotics.

The agents of the XIV Primavalle District they arrested a 44 year old Italian, seriously suspected of the crime of detention for the purposes of drug dealing and resistance to Public Official. Following investigative activities in the neighborhood “Quartaccio”, the agents discovered adrug dealing activity carried out by the 44-year-old, who met several customers near Via Andersen during the day. The officers noticed the man take something out of a parked car to then reach out to a person and make an exchange. Following a subsequent sale of narcotic substances at a bar, the police stopped the man and following a personal search was found in possession of 50 euros in cash, probable proceeds of the sale just made. At the home of 44 year old 23 grams of hashish were found, while a bag of cocaine was found in the parked car. The man was arrested.

The arrests were all validated.

In any case, all the suspects are to be considered presumed innocent, in consideration of the current phase of the proceedings, i.e. that of the preliminary investigations, until a definitive finding of guilt with an irrevocable sentence.