The financial police of the Villa San Giovanni Company, during a territorial control service aimed at combating illicit trafficking, arrested a 45 year old man in flagrante delicto Napoli for drug trafficking.
The man, headed in Sicilia While driving a car, he was subjected to a check by the finance police due to his nervousness. With the assistance of two canine units from the Reggio Calabria Emergency Response Company, the officers searched the car.
Thanks to the sniffer dogs Syria and Edin, the financial police discovered a false bottom in the front of the vehicle. Concealed inside, hidden in cooler bags, was hashish weighing a total of 18 kilograms.
The drugs had been packaged in such a way as to deceive the controls: the blocks of hashish were in fact wrapped in paper wrappers with shapes and images identical to cans of soft drinks and ice cream cones of well-known brands on the market.
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The double bottom with hashish
The man, who has a criminal record for drug-related offenses, was arrested and taken to the "Arghillà" prison in Reggio Calabria, at the disposal of the local Public Prosecutor's Office headed by Dr. Giovanni Bombardieri.
In addition to the 18 kilograms of hashish, a mobile phone was also seized. The drug, if sold at retail, could have earned organized crime around 130.000 euros.
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