Disagreements over the division and monopoly of the homegrown marijuana business are said to be behind last night's high-profile murder, in which boss Antonino Di Lorenzo, 53, known as 'o lignammone, was killed outside his home in Casola. His leadership lasted less than two years; the 53-year-old had replaced his fellow countryman Ciro Orazzo, known as 'o pisciariello,' who was killed in a field in Casola on March 13, 2017. Orazzo was likely murdered because he disagreed with other drug lords over the management of the thousands of cannabis plantations hidden in the local woods. Ciro Orazzo, the adopted nephew of the elderly boss Catello Cuomo 'o caniello, patriarch of the Camorra in the province of Naples (who died of old age a few months ago), having married his niece, was considered by investigators to be one of the leaders of the marijuana trafficking network in the Lattari Mountains.
He was the right-hand man of Mario Cuomo, the son of the boss who was killed in August 2012 on a soccer field while playing with friends. Cuomo and Orazzo ran a lucrative drug trafficking ring with Albania and had clashed with the “Pimontesi” gang, which was dominant in the area and controlled most of the grass plantations on the Lattari. But Orazzo had also clashed with Di Lorenzo himself. Investigators believe that the murder also had the 'permission' of the Castellammare di Stabia clans, who have always supervised the millionaire trafficking that revolves around drug cultivation. The plants, once dried, are cut and the inflorescences are either processed to make hashish or sold as they are. A very large market, which also reaches Salerno and Calabria. The Monti Lattari area, the so-called Jamaica of Italy, is once again at the center of a Camorra feud with huge economic interests. Investigators have seized the victim's cell phone and hope to find evidence that will be useful to their investigation. They questioned the family members and in particular the son Carmine, who was also arrested in the operation of the hemp plantations in the Marsica mountains in Abruzzo last year and for whom the Public Prosecutor's Office of L'Aquila recently requested that he be sent for trial together with his 11 accomplices, including his father himself. The young man certainly knows about his father's dealings but most likely also about the people with whom he had come into conflict. Di Lorenzo was under special surveillance (he went to sign in every day at the Carabinieri barracks in Gragnano) and was required to return home by 21 pm. And last night the killers, as usual, waited for him to come home. They set an old-fashioned ambush for him: armed with rifles and hidden in the bush like in the days of the bloody feud between the Imparatos and the D'Alessandros. Before Antonino Di Lorenzo and Ciro Orazzo, another murder had been recorded in Casola: on the evening of September 30, 2016, the 63-year-old farmer Pasquale Starace was killed. He was killed by two hitmen on a motorbike while he was returning home after spending the evening at the bar with friends. Starace had worked as a farmer on the estate of the ras of Casola, Catello Cuomo 'o caniello and Ciro Orazzo. For some years, however, Pasquale Starace had distanced himself from the Cuomo family due to some disagreements that had arisen and was not working. A few months before he was killed there had been another ambush, again in Casola, in which Ciro Orazzo was wounded. And on that occasion the carabinieri immediately seized some rifles in the house of the 63-year-old farmer Pasquale Starace. On that occasion he was taken to the barracks together with his wife and son. Starace was a skilled hunter even though he was partially disabled in one hand due to hunting. In fact, when he was young, during a hunt, a rifle exploded in his hand, severing some of his fingers. All these elements and this trail of blood lead the investigators towards a very local feud. The boss Antonino Di Lorenzo, killed last night, had excellent relations with the "Pimontesi" and for this reason it is believed that they can be excluded in this first phase even if the use of rifles is one of their "signatures".
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