Anti-drug operation: arrests, kidnappings and complaints for cocaine and hashish detention, trafficking and dealing between Agrigento and Caltanissetta
The carabinieri of the provincial command of Agrigento carried out 26 precautionary orders against as many suspects residing in the provinces of Agrigento and Caltanissetta. These are persons held responsible, for various reasons, for detention, trafficking and dealing in drugs, cocaine and hashish in a particular way.
The investigation was conducted by the carabinieri of the operating and mobile radio unit of the Agrigento company, with the coordination of the chief prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio and the substitute Gloria Andreoli. The measures were signed by the investigating judge of the court of Agrigento, Stefano Zammuto. Seven suspects, in execution of the provision of the judge for the preliminary investigations of the court of Agrigento, were placed under the House arrest, two of which with the application of the electronic bracelet. An order of ban on residence.
The anti-drug operation – called “Pyramid” – of the carabinieri of the operational and mobile radio nucleus of the Agrigento company was built between the city of Temples, Canicatti ‘, Racalmuto, Caves, Favara, Gela and San Cataldo. The following ended up under house arrest: Canicatti’s 31-year-old CS; AI aged 63 from Racalmuto; RMS of 40 years of Gela; 45-year-old VS from Favara; PSB a 38-year-old woman from Favara; BC of 50 years of Grotte and TG of 42 years of Racalmuto.
The investigation, according to what was announced by the Prosecutor’s Office, was called “Pyramid” because of the top-down structure “created between the various pushers, collaborators of the latter and the buyers, arises from a timely and targeted judicial police activity aimed at countering the massive flow of cocaine that from the province (Canicatti ‘- Caltanissetta) reached the market squares of Agrigento.
Prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio adds: “The investigative strategy made it possible to acquire relevant evidence, kidnappings, arrests and reports within the suspects who had obtained, each one, a well-defined role in selling cocaine both wholesale, placing quantities that were between 50 and 100 grams in a fluid manner, and retail with the sale of single doses “.
During the activity, substantial quantities of drugs were seized, about 2 kilograms of cocaine and 4 kilograms of hashish. They were operated on five arrests in the act of committing a crime And two complaints in a state of freedom, as well as numerous administrative reports attributable to the personal use of the drug carried out by the various purchasers.
The value of the drug seized amounts to approx 100 thousand euros. “The positions of the suspects – adds Patronaggio – will be subjected to a first scrutiny by the court of re-examination and subsequently to the judgment of the court of Agrigento to ascertain, in contradiction between the parties, of any criminal liability of the same”.
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