Drug and weapons found in Catania warehouse: Police raids.
The carabinieri of the Maniace station had decided to verify if a bar on Corso Fondaco, owned by a 54-year-old local, with a criminal record, complied with hygiene and health regulations, therefore, together with the personnel of the Asp of the Adrano and Bronte section, they reached the commercial establishment starting the checks, to protect consumers. The hygiene deficiencies of the premises immediately caught the eye of the specialists of the provincial health company, but also of the carabinieri who, while inspecting a storage room of the shop, noticed a black plastic bag for waste, placed behind the door of that small room. Inside, however, it was not garbage that had been thrown away, but a 12-gauge over-under shotgun, loaded with 2 shot shells, with the serial number erased by punching.
The unusual find led the carabinieri to search the entire structure inch by inch and, in a bag placed on a piece of furniture in the same warehouse, they found another 3 12-gauge broken ammunition shells (shot). Outside the bar, instead, inside a bag similar to the one used to hide the rifle, the intuition of the military police allowed them to recover almost 100 grams of marijuana.
At that point, the carabinieri requested reinforcements from the Canine Unit of Nicolosi who, in a short time, joined them with the drug detection dog King and, together with them, also went to the 54-year-old’s house, located nearby. The intuition of the military police was rewarded because the infallible nose of King found, in the garage of the house, more marijuana hidden in a glass jar (4 grams), while, on a shelf, investigators recovered 9 pistol cartridges caliber 9×34 and one for a 38 caliber pistol.
The man tried to justify the presence of drugs and weapons, recounting that he had found the rifle two days before in a grove, during a walk with his dog, while the hidden drugs in the waste bag were not his. Of course, his excuses were in vain, because not only was he reported for “receiving and illegal possession of ammunition” but he was also arrested for “illegal possession and carrying of a weapon in a public place”, therefore made available to the judicial authority who, validating the carabinieri’s work, ordered his transfer to the Catania prison of Piazza Lanza.
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