Carabinieri arrested a 63-year-old man for suspected drug dealing in San Paolo di Civitate, after a search at his home in the town centre. The operation was carried out by the local station as part of checks to prevent and combat drug trafficking. Officers stopped the man in flagrante after searching his residence. During the search, investigators found a first dose of marijuana on the kitchen table. Further checks led them to an adjacent plot of land, where six more sealed packages of the same substance were found and were in the man’s availability. The seized drugs totalled more than 320 grams of marijuana. The batch also included about 66 grams of cocaine. Investigators estimated it could be processed into roughly 1,900 doses of marijuana and about 400 doses of cocaine. Police also recovered a vacuum packing machine and a roll of film, tools the investigators say were used to prepare and pack the drugs. After the arrest and the subsequent validation hearing, the investigating judge ordered the suspect to serve a precautionary measure of house arrest. The case remains at the preliminary investigation stage, and the man is considered innocent until a final conviction.