Thirteen cocaine dealers arrested and a turnover of €2.400 a day, or €72 a month. This is the sum total of the Piano Napoli business on Via Passanti Scafati in Boscoreale, managed by the family of mafia boss Carletto Padovani. This is what the Torre Annunziata Carabinieri Company discovered. They executed a precautionary custody order issued by the investigating judge of the Oplonti court at the request of the local prosecutor's office against 13 suspects held responsible for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. Hundreds of documented drug deals, primarily cocaine, occurred in the working-class "Piano Napoli" neighborhood of Boscoreale. Deliveries were made to homes, upon prior telephone request.
Umberto, Giovanni and Gennaro Padovani, 24, 28 and 30 years old, believed to be the leaders of the group of cocaine dealers, all related to the boss “Carletto” Padovani, detained because he is serving a definitive sentence for drug trafficking, ended up in prison. Also in jail are Salvatore Russo, 39 years old, Giuseppe Borriello, 45, Gennaro Riccio, 31, Ivan Ranieri, 34, all residents of via Passanti; and also Luigi Pecoraro, 43 years old, from Pompei; Giuseppe Faraco, 28, from Giugliano in Campania; Raimondo Caso, 42 years old, and Cesare Barbarito, 34, both from Scafati. Giuseppe Buono, 45 years old from Boscoreale, his cousins Gennaro Rapuano (same name, 25 and 21 years old), both from the Spanish Quarters; and Gaetano Padovani, the 23-year-old, youngest member of the Boschi drug dealer family.
In most cases, drug deliveries to buyers were agreed upon over the telephone, but the pushers always used different telephone numbers, registered to non-existent people.
The dealers then headed to the Vesuvian area and the Nocera-Sarnese countryside, from where the requests were made. There were about fifty "regular" customers who were contacted directly by the dealers after changing their telephone number, which occurred once a week. The Padovani sold "almost exclusively cocaine, always with the same methods and at a fixed price of 20 euros per dose". The pushers used a coded language on the phone to define the quantity and quality of the drug that was to be sold.
“Come, we can have a coffee and you can bring a coffee” or “Three coffees”. This was the exchange that took place on the phone with customers. And among them also a well-known local doctor of the medical emergency.
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