Carabinieri from the Anzio station, with the Radiomobile unit, arrested three people and reported a fourth at liberty in two separate operations in Anzio Colonia a day apart.[1] In Largo Venezia a 20-year-old from the area, already known to police, tried to avoid a stop by headbutting a carabiniere in the chest and running off, and was caught.[1] A search of the 20-year-old found a block of hashish of about 100 grams, a precision scale and 50 euros in cash.[1] In the home of his father, a 60-year-old who resisted entry and threatened the officers, police seized another 2 grams of hashish, a second scale and a knife coated in drugs.[1] The young man was arrested for possession of drugs for sale, resistance and injuring a public officer, his father for resistance, and both were taken to the Velletri prison.[1]

The next day, in via Ardea, officers saw a 19-year-old taking drugs in a ground-floor garden; he fled through a window and tried to hide a package by the front wheel of a parked small car.[1] In the room he shared with his 18-year-old partner, officers found a small amount of hashish, packaging material, a scale and 305 euros in cash.[1] A search of the car recovered 16 grams of cocaine and 9 grams of hashish hidden in the front wheel-arch compartment.[1] The 19-year-old was arrested and put under house arrest ahead of a fast-track hearing, while his partner was reported at liberty for alleged complicity in possession for sale.[1]

A day after publication, the Carabinieri put the two operations together at three arrests and one report, with hashish, cocaine, cash and packaging material seized.[2] The Carabinieri statement says the proceedings remain at the preliminary-investigations stage.[3] The suspects are identified only by age, and the article says the 20-year-old’s hashish was about 100 grams because officers first thought he had 20.[2]