Messina: Cocaine hidden in a bathroom cavity, 40-year-old arrested

The Carabinieri of the Messina Sud Company have a 40-year-old from Messina, already known to the police, was arrested and held responsible for the crime of "possession of narcotics for the purpose of dealing". The following were involved in the operation: the soldiers of the Operational Unit who had been monitoring the man's movements for several days even with stakeouts near his home, where an unusual coming and going of people had been noticed, mostly young people known to be drug users.

This was the reason why the military of the Arma they decided to search the monitored house, believing they would find a narcotic substance inside. The investigative intuition of the Carabinieri proved to be well-founded, since they have been over 10 grams of cocaine were discovered and seized, cleverly hidden in a bathroom cavity. Furthermore, a small scale soaked in drug residue, presumably used to make the doses, was also found and seized.

The 40-year-old was therefore taken to the barracks under arrest and, after the routine checks, placed under house arrest, at the disposal of the Judicial Authority. The recovered drugs were sent to the Carabinieri of the RIS of Messina for the relevant laboratory tests. Services aimed at combating drug dealing will continueor, throughout the territory of the Peloritan capital, in order to provide an incisive prevention activity and dissuasion of ill-intentioned people from committing specific crimes in the context of drug dealing.