Melfi: Two drug dealers arrested, approximately 14 kg of drugs seized.

During the night of Wednesday April 30, Melfi, Carabinieri of the Operational Department of the Provincial Command of Potenza They conducted a significant operation of fight against drug trafficking and dealing in the Vulture Melfese area.

Specifically, within the same service, the military personnel of the Arma proceeded with thearrest of two individuals of the place respectively of And 66 30 years, who are seriously suspected, in competition with each other, of the crime of possession for the purpose of dealing narcotic substances.

The attention of the men of the Carabinieri was drawn when the two, on board a small-engined car, did not comply with the order to stop given by a patrol, forcing the checkpoint and ramming the Carabinieri service car in an attempt to avoid any investigations.

The Carabinieri reacted promptly and, with the help of additional patrols in the area, cornered the two individuals who were forced to abandon the vehicle to try to disappear on foot in the town centre. An attempt that proved to be in vain, as The military personnel of the Carabinieri promptly managed to intercept the two individuals and find a duffle bag which they had hidden shortly before in a space under the stairs and inside which the soldiers found 13,620 kg of narcotic substance of the hashish type e 560 grams of marijuana-type narcotic substance.

The immediate and subsequent investigative checks allowed for the collection of evidence which, according to the state of the case, was fully consistent with tracing the availability of the significant quantity of narcotic substance back to the two arrested persons.

Together with the drugs, they were also subjected to evidence seizure a cellular telephone apparatus and four electronic payment cards.

Once the formal procedures were completed, the two arrested individuals were brought together at the Potenza County Jail, remaining at the disposal of the competent Judicial Authority.

In the hearing held in yesterday, the Judge for Preliminary Investigations at the Court of Potenza, in light of the evidence gathered, validated the arrests carried out by the Carabinieri and applied, with respect to both suspects - for whom, it is worth remembering, the presumption of innocence until final sentence – the measure of the pre-trial detention in prison.
The significant operational result achieved, the result of meticulous investigative activity and constant monitoring of the territory, represents a tangible demonstration of the continuous and incessant commitment shown by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Potenza in the protection of legality and in the safeguarding of public security.