It's unclear whether the search is tied to the ongoing investigation into Lance Armstrong
According the the New York Times, Giro d'Italia race director Angelo Zomegnan has confirmed that police agents from the Italian NAS (Nucleo Antisofisticazioni e Sanitā) division have carried out searches on the Team RadioShack hotel during Monday's rest day. Zomegnan said he did not have any other details, and the newspaper said the police declined to comment.
It isn't clear if the search is connected to Team RadioShack rider Yaroslav Popovych’s brush with authorities last November. The Italian home of the Ukrainian rider was then searched by the police from the Guardia di Finanza di Padova and Carabinieri from Brescia and Florence. They used a search warrant to gain access, and took several unidentified substances with them after spending time carefully going through his home in Brescia.
The warrant in November was issued by Padua-based prosecutor Benedetto Roberti, who is overseeing an extensive investigation into doping within Italian sport.
In January, Sports Illustrated claimed the search of Popovych's home uncovered performance enhancing drugs along with texts and emails which appeared to show that Popovych worked with the controversial doctor Michele Ferrari up to 2009, but there has been no action against the rider to date that would confirm that to be the case. If the publication's claims prove to be true, it would be five years after Armstrong said he and the team had cut ties with the Italian. Armstrong stated on several occasions in 2008 and 2009 that he had no contact with Ferrari, but has since admitted to meeting with the doctor "every once and a while" as friends.
It is believed that Ferrari is a part of the FDA's investigation of Armstrong and his US Postal team.