Carabinieri of the Bagheria company’s radiomobile section arrested a married couple, a man of 66 and a woman of 61, in Bagheria in the province of Palermo.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The two are accused together of possessing drugs for sale, and the arrest was made in flagrante, with the couple caught in the act.[9][3] Officers were watching the flat because of an unusual stream of people stopping outside for a few minutes and leaving again.[1][2][4] The patrol moved in after seeing a young man hurry away from the building, apparently just after a handover, and searched the home.[9][2][3][7][8]

In the refrigerator officers found 51 ready-made doses of hashish weighing about 47 grams.[9][2][3][5][6][7][8] In a kitchen cupboard they found another 126 grams of the same substance in four parcels, along with cellophane rolls and material for packaging it.[1][2][3][6][7][8]

At the request of the prosecutor’s office led by Angelo Vittorio Cavallo, the Termini Imerese judge for preliminary investigations validated the arrests and ordered both suspects to report regularly to the judicial police.[9][2][3][5][6][7][8] La Voce di Bagheria, a local newspaper, reported the same arrests and the same validation ruling as the other outlets.[10] StrettoWeb reported the case under a Palermo headline and repeated that the judge validated the arrests.[11]

The patrol moved in after seeing a young man hurry away from the building, probably just after an exchange, and searched the home.[4]