Carabinieri from the Chiusaforte station stopped a saloon car on the SS13 Pontebbana state road on Friday afternoon during a service against drug trafficking and dealing.[1][2][3] The driver was a 58-year-old man resident in the Tarvisio area, and officers smelled a strong odour of marijuana when the car door was opened.[1][2][3] Colleagues from the radiomobile unit of the Tarvisio company joined the checks.[1][3]

A search of the driver and the vehicle found a cigarette containing the drug.[1][2][3] A search of his home found 67 grams of marijuana, which officers seized.[1][2][3] The man was reported to the judicial authorities for possession for the purpose of dealing drugs.[1][2][3]

In the same afternoon, carabinieri in Pontebba arrested a 42-year-old local man over an aggravated theft committed in 2018, an unrelated case.[1][3]

The stop took place on the afternoon of Friday 6 November 2026.[4] The drug recovered was sequestered by the carabinieri at the end of the operation.[5]