LUCCA. The Carabinieri of the Ponte a Moriano and Pieve di Compito stations arrested a 44-year-old man of Moroccan origin and a 21-year-old Italian woman for the crime of possession for the purpose of dealing drugs. At 9.45pm on 24 April a crew from the Ponte a Moriano station, while carrying out a territorial control service, while passing along Via Nazionale, identified a car stopped on the side of the road with a man and a woman on board. Considering that the man was the recipient of a local and personal search order, issued by the prosecutor’s office for an investigation of the Ponte a Moriano station, the military decided to check the two and carry out the aforementioned provision. Once near the vehicle, the carabinieri noticed between the man and the woman a rapid passing of an object that the 21-year-old hid under her trousers, in her underwear.
At this point the soldiers, after having received help from their colleagues at the Pieve di Compito station, accompanied the couple to the barracks, where the man immediately appeared to be cooperative, while the woman, after giving false personal details, in order to to avoid the search and flee, he pushed the policeman in charge of the control who immediately blocked him. The subsequent search allowed 18 grams of hashish, 5 grams of cocaine, 6 grams of a “cutting” substance and 40 euros to be found on the 21-year-old, probably proceeds from drug dealing activities, while inside the vehicle owned by the 44-year-old, they were found 69 grams of “cutting” substance. The two arrested, after the legal formalities, were accompanied to their respective homes under house arrest, awaiting the validation hearing. The woman will also have to answer for false certification of personal identity and resistance to a public official.
