in just the first few months of this year we seized twenty times. the same amount as we confiscated and the region of appear in the whole of two thousand and sixteen . colonel antonella maggio it is a highly decorated twenty five year veteran of the guardia the financer and heads a unit of two hundred coast guards his team patrolled the southern adriatic and this is his trophy collection boats highly maneuverable and fitted with powerful engines seized from cannabis smugglers who were arrested at sea by my job as team so in back a friend of. these boats was small and almost impossible to pick up on the radar it s all down to the skill of our captains and the people working the radar to spot them as soon as they ve been located speedboats trying to stop him doughty to check