Anti-degradation operation, betrayed by the smell of coca: 48-year-old from Sulmona arrested

Degradation begets degradation: a check on abandoned cars in the city was enough to uncover a drug dealer yesterday. At least this is the charge with which Francesco Di Mario, 48 years old from Sulmona, ended up in prison yesterday. The man was reported by the drug-sniffing dogs of the financial police who, together with the municipal police, also by virtue of the new anti-degradation regulation passed by the municipal council, carried out checks on abandoned cars in the city. In fact, the man’s car, a Fiat Punto, was parked in Via L’Aquila, visibly semi-abandoned and without insurance coverage. When the municipal police called him to provide explanations, the yellow flames drug-sniffing dogs reported that something was not right. The subsequent search carried out at home, thus, allowed the financial police to find fifty-eight grams of cocaine and two precision scales which triggered the arrest of the man, who has now been transferred to the prison in via Lamaccio on charges of possession for the purposes of drug dealing and awaiting the warrant interrogation and validation of the arrest.

Di Mario, in reality, was already known to the police and the car abandoned in via L’Aquila is suspected to have been a place of storage and dealing of drugs in the past. Some time ago, in that very street, two Romans were arrested with two hundred grams of cocaine in the car. Now investigators are checking whether there is a connection with yesterday’s arrest.