Genoa, thanks to the Police's Youpol app: 40-year-old alleged drug dealer arrested

The State Police arrested, Thursday 16 May in Via Merano, at 24 am, a 40-year-old for the crime of possession of a narcotic substance for the purpose of dealing, also reporting him for resisting and insulting a public official and illegal possession of weapons.

It was a anonymous report, received through the Youpol app and relating to an intense drug dealing activity near a house in via Merano, which triggered the intervention of the police.

The agents of the two squad cars of the General Prevention and Public Rescue Office (UPGSP) sent on site, before showing up at the door of the apartment, they separated and also stood outside the building, in order to check that nothing was thrown from the windows. Once the doorbell of the house was rung, the policemen qualified and waited several minutes before anyone opened the door. Inside of they were present, too to the 40 year old which he has right from the start showed an obstructive attitude by opposing entry, another 6 people, three of whom are family members.

During the check, the operators who were on the street reached their colleagues giving them three wrappers containing brown substance (cannabis weighing 8 g) which, as expected, had just been thrown from a window of the apartment in question. During the search they were also found, behind a washing machine and under a bed, 5 plastic wrappers and a cellophane bag containing 20 grams of cocaine. In the same place, inside a dryer, The "kit” for cutting and packaging: 2 jars of bicarbonate, a stick of mannite, a precision scale, a roll of cellophane bags and an extraction aerator; not far away there is also an electronic device tracker and a two-way radio. Inside a cabinet placed in a small room it was also found: a flail with wooden handle and pointed sphere, a double-edged dagger 31 cm long, a 22 cm long snap-knife and a brass weight inserted into a sock.

A loaded spring pistol was found in the same room, without red cap, with attached plumb shots. In the bathroom, inside the toilet, there was a hidden another precision balance and the water appeared to be contaminated by numerous white particles, as was that of the bathtub inside which three bottles of soap were floating, completely emptied and mixed with the water itself.

The man he was associated with the Marassi prison awaiting validation from the Judicial Authority.