Carabinieri from the Conselve station arrested a 23-year-old Moroccan man without a fixed address on suspicion of possessing drugs for dealing, after residents near the town’s public swimming pools reported his movements.[1] Residents said the young man arrived on an electric bicycle for several days, stopped for a few minutes in the car park while talking on the phone and then left quickly, and police suspected an itinerant dealing spot.[1] On the morning of 4 November the officers watched the area, picked up the suspect and followed him to a flat in Via Talpe in Tribano, a town neighbouring Conselve.[2]

Inside the flat police identified two other Moroccan nationals, both legally resident in Italy, and searched the 23-year-old’s bedroom.[1] A precision scale was found in a bedside-table drawer, and a block of hashish weighing 504 grams was hidden among clothes in a suitcase.[1] The hashish and the scale were seized, and on the order of the Padova public prosecutor’s office the man was taken to the Due Palazzi prison in Padua.[1]

The operation was run by the Conselve station under the Abano Terme Carabinieri company and coordinated by lieutenant Marco Cestaro, PadovaOggi reported.[2] TgPadova reported that the prosecutor ordered the man held at the Due Palazzi prison while the judicial authority decides the case.[3]