‘Suspicious’ movements and concern of citizens and traders for a continuous coming and going of people at all hours of the day and night in the woods of Piediluco, on the border with Rieti. The ‘fear’ was that of the presence of drug dealers in the wooded areas and the report to the police was triggered

. On Thursday morning, the military dismantled a first bivouac and then, extending the checks to other areas (more precisely along the Sp 3 at kilometer 19 500), stopped a man who, seeing the men in uniform, gave himself up escape into the woods.

Shop in the woods The man was chased and blocked by the police. The 37-year-old, Moroccan, domiciled in Italy but not in the Terni area and already known to the police, had with him a total of 45 grams of cocaine ready for drug dealing and already divided into doses, another 20 of hashish, a precision scale and more than a thousand euros in cash divided into small denomination banknotes. The man was arrested for drug offences. All the drugs, the material for the

dividing into doses and banknotes were seized. The magistrate on duty at the local Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered that the man be detained in a security room pending the validation hearing before the judge of the Court.