Rome, drugs: from hashish under the carpet to cocaine in underwear, six arrests.
Cars used to transport drugs, with more or less ingenious hiding places, discovered by the State Police Rome in the neighborhoods of Cortina d'Ampezzo and Giardinetti. Drugs hidden in underwear in the Esquilino district.
Milvio Bridge
A plainclothes patrol from the Ponte Milvio district, in one of the small streets of the Cortina d'Ampezzo district, checked 2 men, one aged 23 and the other 39 years old, on board an old small car; the police, smelling the typical acrid smell of cannabinoids, investigated further and immediately found half a stick of hashish hidden between the seats. After a careful search, under the body of the car, they found 3 metal boxes magnetized to the bodywork, where 40 grams of cocaine were hidden. The 2, from whom more than 400 euros in cash were also seized, were arrested on serious suspicion of possession for the purpose of dealing drugs.
San Basilio
The system used by the 39-year-old stopped by the detectives of the San Basilio District was less ingenious: the man, in order to move the drugs with impunity from a commercial business to the meeting point with 2 accomplices aged 58 and 47, had placed a hundred grams under a mat of so-called “smoke”. Unaware of being followed by the police, he calmly made the delivery but, immediately afterwards, he and the other 2 men were stopped. The officers then carried out a series of searches and another 39 blocks of hashish and just under 4 grams of cocaine were found and seized in the 90-year-old's business. At the end of the investigations, all the people arrested were arrested because they were seriously suspected of possession for the purpose of dealing drugs.
Esquiline
The hideout used by a 47-year-old arrested by the police from the Esquilino police station is classic. The same man, in Via Principe Amedeo, convinced that he was not being observed, sold a dose of cocaine, extracting it from his underwear. Stopped by the officers he was arrested for drug dealing. For all the arrests described above, the Rome Prosecutor's Office requested and obtained from the Judge for Preliminary Investigations validation of the pre-precautionary measures adopted by the State Police. 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.
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