Carabinieri of the station in Baiano arrested a 24-year-old man from Sirignano, holding him responsible for possessing and cultivating a narcotic substance.[1] The arrest followed an overnight search of the young man’s home.[2] During that search the soldiers found and seized two cannabis indica plants, more than a metre tall, with flowering tops they described as suitable for producing marijuana, together with about 35 grams of the same narcotic substance.[1]

What was found was placed under seizure.[1] The 24-year-old, already known to the police, was declared under arrest and, on the order of the public prosecutor’s office in Avellino, placed under house arrest, a restrictive measure that keeps him at home.[1]

The case remained at the preliminary-investigation stage, and the presumption of innocence still applied to him.[3] Officers seized both of the two indica plants and the roughly 35 grams of marijuana found in the home with them.[3]