It's raining cocaine! An Italian drug trafficker used a South American narcos technique for drug delivery and had a shipment of cocaine dropped from a plane, but it didn't go to plan.?
The?8.5 kg of pure?cocaine?worth $9.5 million, ended up crashing through the roof of a homeowner in a?botched smuggling operation.
Francesco Rizzo - a 28-year-old flight instructor from Rome - is accused of plunging the drugs on to a house in Oristano, Sardinia, in March. Rizzo flew his light single-propeller plane at low altitude before dropping the canvas bag near the small village of Baratici San Pietro, Daily Mail reported.?
The drugs were intended for the traffickers, but instead they fell through the roof of a neighbour who had no clue what was going on. ?
After hearing the loud bang, the homeowners immediately called the police, who were initially left confused about how the drugs even ended up being their home.??
The police said that the street value for the cocaine was around ?6.8million ($9.5 million).
In further investigation, investigators discovered that the plane had departed from Roma Urbe airport before making a pit stop at Monti della Tolfa airfield before heading to Sardinia.
Photographed by CCTV, the GPS, which investigators analysed?showed that the plane had flown over villages in Oristano.
For three months, the police were trying to track down the pilot who also works for a Hungarian company flying VIPs and private planes.
On Tuesday, Rizzo was arrested when making a stop at Cagliari-Elmas airport on Sardinia on a flight from Germany.
The hunt is on to track others involved in drug trafficking.?