Livorno, street dealing: Carabinieri controls increased in the city, two people arrested, two others reported at large and three young people reported

Significantly increased the action to combat the commission of crimes with a priority focus on prevention in the city center by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Livorno, following the guidelines shared at the Committee for Public Order and Security at the Prefecture of Livorno. This is an action coordinated with the dependent departments, aimed at combating, in addition to criminal dynamics, also the potential degradation of some areas of the territory, conducted in recent days by the Carabinieri of the Livorno Company with particular attention to combating drug dealing and bad nightlife, without neglecting the protection of road safety, combing through the central urban areas of Piazza Mazzini, Piazza Garibaldi, Piazza della Repubblica and Piazza XX Settembre and the surrounding minor urban arteries, as well as the Corea and Shangai neighborhoods.

During the activity, which took place in the afternoon and at night, from a prevention check in the area of ​​via Nino Bixio, the Carabinieri of the Livorno Operational and Radiomobile Unit noticed a young man of North African origins making suspicious movements and having fleeting encounters with some passing individuals. The suspicions turned out to be well-founded as the boy was found in possession of 170 euros in cash and 4,5 grams of cocaine divided into 12 pre-packaged doses, after having sold half a gram to a local man, who was also stopped and subsequently administratively reported to the Prefecture as a user for non-therapeutic purposes.

The alleged 24-year-old drug dealer caught and stopped by the Carabinieri in the act of committing the crime has been declared under arrest for the supply of narcotics and following a hearing held last morning before the Judge of the Livorno Tribunal the arrest was validated.

During the same operational context, the Carabinieri of the Ardenza Station have A thirty-year-old African citizen was arrested who was standing in Piazza Garibaldi and attempted to flee upon seeing the soldiers. The same was quickly reached and blocked. Following the subsequent execution of a personal search, in his possession were more than 30 grams of narcotic substances including cocaine and hashish were found, a small part of the substance divided into doses, ready for dealing; also on him was the sum of over 150 euros in cash, proceeds of drug dealing. The Judge of the Livorno court also confirmed the arrest of the thirty-year-old, following a hearing.

During the wide-ranging activities in the urban centre of Livorno conducted by the Carabinieri of Livorno, Two other foreigners, aged between 20 and 50, were reported to the Prefecture of Livorno as drug users, as they were caught respectively in Piazza Garibaldi and in the area of ​​Via Nino Bixio in possession of doses of marijuana and hashish intended for personal non-therapeutic use. All the narcotics were seized for subsequent analysis and destruction.

In the same operational context, two other people were reported at large by the military of the Livorno Operational and Radiomobile Nucleus: a 40-year-old originally from Eastern Europe who, checked in Corso Amedeo, was found in possession of lock picks and burglary tools; a 50-year-old Italian who, checked on board a car in the Piazza Dante area, was caught driving under the influence of alcohol with a detected rate of 1,81 g/l, almost four times over the limit, with the consequent and immediate withdrawal of the license.