On Tuesday morning in Alghero , the Carabinieri of the Sassari Investigative Unit, with the “Cacciatori Sardegna” Helicopter Squadron, the Abbasanta Canine Unit and the Alghero Company, arrested a man for illegal possession of weapons and possession of narcotics for the purpose of dealing.
After a surveillance operation, the police searched his home on the outskirts of the city and found a modified, ready-to-use blank-firing pistol with six 6.35 caliber cartridges. They also recovered 88 additional cartridges of the same caliber, six rounds of 9mm ammunition, four homemade explosive devices, 12 high-explosive firecrackers, two precision scales, cutting agent, and packaging material . Thirty-one grams of cocaine were found in a compartment in a plastic bottle. Approximately €6,900 in cash , believed to be the proceeds of drug dealing, was also seized. The explosive material, considered high-explosive, was destroyed by the bomb squad.
The man, by order of the Sassari Prosecutor's Office, was transferred to Bancali prison pending a conviction hearing.