The drug found yesterday in a house in Lunamatrona by the carabinieri of the Sanluri company would have yielded almost one million and 600 thousand euros , who managed to deal a severe blow to a drug dealing square in southern Sardinia.
In the blitz, in fact, two arrests were made and 12 kg of cocaine recovered, as well as 2 kg of hashish and marijuana and clandestine weapons and ammunition.
Retail cocaine alone could have yielded 1.5 million euros, to which should be added around 20 thousand euros which would have come from the sale of half a kilo of hashish and 16 thousand from 1.6 kg of marijuana.
In handcuffs for drug trafficking, receiving stolen goods, illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, alteration of armament material, a couple: a 33-year-old farmer and a 38-year-old waitress from Cagliari. Both were transferred to Uta Jail.
To make the military suspicious a change in the man's standard of living, the new expensive car, the sale of almost the entire cattle farm, the contacts with big offenders in the Villamar and Sanluri area. Also his possible involvement with other subjects in a recent theft of a rifle stolen in Villamar by breaking through the rear window of a parked car. Yesterday the carabinieri blocked the two as they left their house in the center of the town.
Between a closet in the house and the woman's car in the spare wheel compartment, they hid numerous pats of drugs with totals. The rifle, on the other hand, was in a sack buried in a hole in the courtyard of the house. A Franchi, 12 gauge with partially abraded serial number and the shot in the barrel, together with 18 illegally held 12 gauge cartridges.
Investigations by the Carabinieri are underway to assess the role of the couple, who probably served as drug storekeepers, and to identify any accomplices.
(Unioneonline/lf)
