To try to get away with it, he had sprinkled the blocks of cocaine with green toothpaste, hidden them in the wheel arches of his rented Fiat 500 and was trying to cross the Strait from Calabria, probably to get to Catania and deliver his “goods”. But obviously when the Finance drug-sniffing dog at the checkpoint of the private docks began to approach the car, his entire “work program” was interrupted. And the 30-year-old from Catania DC was arrested in flagrante delicto because he was carrying almost eight kilos of pure cocaine, kg to be precise. 7,980. The story dates back a few days and has already reached the stage of closure of the preliminary investigations by the Messina prosecutor Massimo Minniti. The 30-year-old, who is assisted by the lawyer Ilaria Intelisano, is under house arrest, the investigating judge Arianna Raffa has issued a precautionary custody order. During the investigation he declared that he had taken the cocaine in Soverato and had to deliver it to Biancavilla in the Catania area. The funny thing, so to speak, is that the drug courier, in addition to possession of the large quantity of cocaine, is also accused of… driving without a license “… for never having obtained it”.
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