Five kilos of pure cocaine, which once placed on the market would have yielded over one and a half million euros .
A 54-year-old Spaniard was arrested in Cagliari by the police .
With his car, he whizzed through the city center following another car of a known offender. The agents of the Flying Squad, suspicious of the speed of the vehicles and the foreign number plates, decided to follow them as far as Pirri .
There the cars stopped, right in front of the offender's house . The policemen started the search, further suspicious of the Spaniard's agitation. In the engine compartment of the vehicle, hidden inside the battery, the men of the fifth anti-drug section found 5 kilos of very pure cocaine already divided into blocks, worth over 1.5 million euros.
The Spaniard was arrested in the act on charges of possession of drugs for the purpose of drug dealing, he is now in the Uta prison at the disposal of the judicial authority.
(Unioneonline/L)
