A neighbour dispute over renovation noise in Tor Tre Teste turned into a State Police anti-drug intervention in Rome.[1] Officers of the Porta Maggiore police station and the Flying Squad arrested a 34-year-old man of German origin on strong suspicion of possession for drug dealing.[1] The intervention began after a renovation worker sought help saying a neighbour annoyed by the noise had threatened him and confronted his entrance door.[1] The man’s arrest was later validated by the judicial authority at Piazzale Clodio.[2]

A second worker near the car park then saw a blue bag fall from the building.[1] The bag held more than 150 doses of cocaine and two bars of hashish.[1] Officers traced the bag’s trajectory to the bedroom window of the man involved in the earlier dispute.[1] Inside the flat, officers found stocks of cocaine, hashish and marijuana in the kitchen refrigerator instead of food.[3] Another bar of hashish had been thrown into the waste bin.[1] Officers recovered additional cocaine in the bathroom.[1] Officers also found equipment for weighing, cutting and packaging doses.[1] Officers seized more than 5,000 euros in cash believed to come from dealing.[1] Police put the total seizure at about one kilogram of drugs comprising cocaine, hashish and marijuana.[2]

Investigators described the flat’s contents as a genuine drug-dealing store spread across its rooms.[1] Police said the evidence concerns the preliminary-investigation phase and the suspect remains presumed innocent until any final conviction.[2]