60-year-old arrested in Rome with 200 g hashish in remote-controlled car compartments
Guardia di Finanza officers stopped a car at Castelverde, in the east of Rome, and found two remote-controlled hidden compartments under the front seats holding ten packets of cocaine and two packets of hashish totalling 200 grams, plus 12,800 euros in cash. A 60-year-old Italian resident of Rome was arrested in flagrante on the prosecutor's orders and taken to Regina Coeli prison.
Guardia di Finanza officers of the Rome Provincial Command stopped a car at
Castelverde in the east of Rome during a standing economic-control operation
after the Italian driver resident in Rome appeared immediately nervous.[1]
Officers found two hidden compartments under the car’s front seats, opened by a
remote control, containing ten packets of cocaine, two packets of hashish
weighing 200 grams in total, and a substantial amount of cash.[1]A search of
the man’s apartment found further bundles of 50-euro notes, bringing the total
cash seized to 12,800 euros.[1]On the orders of the Rome public prosecutor’s
office, the man, aged about sixty, was arrested in flagrante and taken to Regina
Coeli prison.[1]
The Guardia di Finanza estimated the drugs, had they been sold in the dealing
squares of the Rome metropolitan city, would have guaranteed the criminal
organisation illicit profits of over 2 million euros.[1]RomaToday reports the
driver was carrying 11 kilograms of cocaine alongside 200 grams of hashish and
almost 13,000 euros in cash.[2]
Rai News confirms the 60-year-old was stopped for an ordinary road control,
became nervous, and the hidden compartments reachable only by remote control
held ten packets of cocaine, two of hashish and cash.[3]
Photos and video
Photo of the seized drugs published with the report on the Castelverde car seizure. Photo: Canale DieciPhoto details
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