He was traveling with 18 kg of marijuana, drug courier headed to Sicily arrested

VILLA SAN GIOVANNI – A 45-year-old man from Naples was arrested at the ferry boarding in flagrante delicto, for drug trafficking. The man, That he was headed to Sicily aboard a carwas subjected to an inspection by financiers of the Company of Villa San Giovanni, during which he showed signs of nervousness. Therefore, with the help of two canine units from the Reggio Calabria Emergency Service Company, the car was searched.

Thanks to the nose of the anti-drug dogs Syria and Edin, highly specialized in operations of this kind, the military discovered a false bottom, created in the front part of the vehicle, found to contain narcotic substances of the hashish type, “disguised” inside paper wrappings, with shape and images identical to drink cans and ice cream cones of well-known brands on the market, hidden in thermal bags. At the end of the operations they were seized 220 blocks of hashish, with a total weight of 18 kgtogether with a mobile phone.

The man, with specific precedents, currently under investigation for violation of the legislation on narcotic substances and without prejudice to the necessary confirmations in the continuation of the preliminary investigations, was arrested and taken to the “Arghillà” prison in Reggio Calabria. The narcotic, if sold at retail, could have earned organized crime around 130,000 euros.