Two loads of cocaine and hashish were intercepted by the financiers of the Rome provincial command, who arrested two people for possession and trafficking of narcotic substances. During patrolling the area, the ‘yellow flames’ of the 2nd Metropolitan Operational Unit of Rome stopped for a check a car parked in the ‘Salaria Est’ service area, on the Roma Nord branch, finding it hidden in a false bottom obtained in the frame, 25 kilograms of hashish, contained in ice cream cone and ice lolly shaped packages.
In another operation, the military subjected an articulated lorry with Romanian license plate to inspection while it was stopped in the Mascherone Ovest service area of the Milan-Rome motorway, also in this case finding 30 bricks containing cocaine hidden in double floors in the trailer. weighing over 30 kilograms.
The two batches of drugs, once placed on the market, could have brought criminal organizations proceeds of over 3.2 million euros. The flagrant arrest of the two subjects, in both cases, was validated by the judicial authorities of Rome and Tivoli, territorially competent due to the place of the seizure.
