Latina state police arrested a man born in 1975 on suspicion of possessing drugs for the purpose of dealing.[1] The man is described as 51 years old and was taken to Latina prison at the disposal of the judicial authority.[1]

Mobile squad officers had been watching the home he used after noticing a continuous coming and going of people making only very brief visits.[2][3] Officers then carried out a home search with help from Nettuno state police dog units.[2] Most of the cocaine and the heroin were in a waist bag beside the bed, another dose of cocaine was in the man’s wallet, and the hashish was in a bedroom drawer.[4]

Officers seized about 144 grams of cocaine, almost 6 grams of hashish and just over 1 gram of heroin.[2][5] They also seized a precision scale, material for packaging doses and notes with names, sums of money and quantities that investigators considered linked to dealing.[2][3] The man was arrested in the act and, on the order of the on-duty prosecutor of the Latina public prosecutor’s office, was taken to the Latina district prison.[2] The proceedings are at the preliminary-investigation stage and the suspect is presumed innocent until any final conviction.[1]