Guardia di Finanza officers from the Menaggio company checked a minor together with a group of friends near a public establishment in Menaggio, on Lake Como.[1] The operation was part of intensified territorial control focused on places where young people gather.[1] Officers found a group of youths gathered in the area behind the establishment and decided to check them.[1] The officers noticed the minor repeatedly putting his hands in his trouser pockets and saw a slight bulge in the side of his clothing.[1]
When asked whether he held drugs, the boy spontaneously handed over a packet containing 35.1 grams of hashish and a precision scale, both hidden on his person.[1] Believing more drugs could be at his home, officers carried out a search of the boy’s home.[1] In a desk drawer in his bedroom they found another 5.9 grams of hashish already divided into seven doses, together with transparent film used to wrap the drug.[1] A further personal search recovered another 12.9 grams of hashish, bringing the total seized to 53.9 grams.[1]
After the checks the minor was reported to the judicial authority.[1] The Finance Guard suspects that he was selling drugs to minors in the area.[1]