Carabinieri from the Sorrento coast mobile radio unit arrested a 23-year-old man born in Vico Equense in November 2002 in a narrow side street off via Bernardino Rota in Sorrento.[1][2][3] The street is used by dealers to sell drugs, so officers blocked the escape routes with patrol cars and unmarked vehicles before moving in on foot.[1]

The man tried to drive away in his Smart car, was stopped after a few metres, searched and handcuffed.[1][2] Where he had been waiting before getting into the car, officers found and seized 112 grams of hashish and 7.50 grams of marijuana.[1][2][3] The same search found a small scale for weighing doses.[1][2][4]

The man faces a charge of possessing drugs for the purpose of dealing and was placed under house arrest pending trial.[1][2]

Ilgiornalelocale.it identifies the officers as the Sorrento mobile radio unit, the Aliquota Radiomobile, working the via Bernardino Rota side street.[5] Officers who knew the area set up a targeted operation in advance, blocking the possible escape routes with service cars and decoy vehicles before approaching on foot.[5] Where he had been waiting before getting into the car, carabinieri seized 132 doses of cocaine alongside 112 grams of hashish and 7.50 grams of marijuana.[5] A precision scale, presumably used to weigh the doses, was found with the drugs.[5]

The street is particularly narrow, passable only by minicars and scooters, and was already known to police as a possible drug-dealing spot.[2]