Florence, found with 50 doses of cocaine at home: 20 year old arrested
The agents intervened after citizens’ reports on a suspected comings and goings from an apartment in Campo di Marte
Arrested twice in eight months, again on the same drug-dealing charge. To arrest him again were the men of the team drug of the Municipal Police of Florence that yesterday afternoon they stopped a 20-year-old young man from North Africa.
Thanks to some reports by citizens of a suspected comings and goings from an apartment in the Campo di Marte area the anti-drug agents decided to take a stand near the reported house and check what happened. They noticed the boy going out and exchange a wrapper for banknotes with a woman who was stopped nearby and found in possession of cocaine. So they reached the young man who had given it to him and approached him.
This is how they found an old acquaintance of theirs: the boy had been arrested by the same drug team in February and although he was already known, he tried to mislead the agents by telling them to live in the center. But the agents did one search of his home finding 50 doses of cocaine already packaged with different weights and ready to be sold. The 20-year-old, without documents, was accompanied to the police offices, photographed and taken in the crimes of trafficking and detention for the purpose of drug trafficking.
The trial took place this morning: the arrest was validated, the hearing postponed for the trial and in the meantime the obligation to sign with the Municipal Police of Florence was ordered for him.
“We believe that safety is a prerequisite for raising the quality of life in our city, and that legality is an essential component” he commented the councilor for safety Benedetta Albanese. “Our Municipal Police is daily engaged in a tiring service in the area that brings results like this, it takes perseverance and determination. Our agents collaborate with the police for the sale. Thanks to all the men and women involved in this battle against drug dealing ”.