Agents of the Vicenza railway police section arrested a 27-year-old Italian man resident in Veneto at the city’s railway station on suspicion of possessing drugs for sale.[1] Officers stopped him for a routine passenger identification check just after he stepped off a train, and he showed signs of irritation and nervousness and tried to avoid the check with implausible excuses.[1] The officers took him to the railway police offices, where a personal search found more than 50 grams of hashish, a precision scale, cash and a mobile phone in his clothing pockets.[1] Police seized all the material as they considered it clearly intended for selling the drug.[1]

Checks showed the man already had previous drug offences on his record, as well as offences against property and against the person.[1] He was arrested for drug possession and trafficking and taken to the Casa Circondariale, Vicenza’s prison, at the disposal of the judicial authority in Vicenza.[1] The police said the arrest was made at the city’s railway station during territorial patrols arranged in the previous week.[2]