The operation that the Carabinieri are carrying out near the slopes of the Lattari Mountains, green promontories that overlook the Sorrento coast and anticipate the Nocera-Sarnese countryside, is called “Green Life”.
A natural watershed whose position favors fertile ground for the most demanding crops in terms of light and exposure. Above all those of cannabis indica.
And if the climatic conditions allow marijuana to germinate more easily, the geographical conformation offers criminals refuges for drugs and weapons that are almost impossible to find and reach.
The answer to the environmental advantage is the continuous monitoring that the soldiers of the Castellammare di Stabia company carry out along those slopes. The local carabinieri are also supported by the helicopter squadron Cacciatori “Calabria” and the electronic eye of the remote-controlled drone of the soldiers of the investigative nucleus of Naples. A functional ground-to-air scan that did not take long to make an impact.
The first to end up in handcuffs was Nicola Gentile, a 41-year-old from Agerola already known to the police.
Gentile is a breeder, considered a prominent member of the Afeltra – Di Martino clan.
On his farm, next to a pigsty, the carabinieri found 1 Desert Eagle cal. 44 magnum pistol with magazine and 47 cartridges and a Micro Uzi caliber 9 machine gun with erased serial number and silencer, 3 magazines and 15 bullets.
War weapons, wrapped in a cellophane bag and buried together with 37 7.62 and 5 12 mm cal. cartridges. Gentile is now in prison and will have to answer for illegal possession of clandestine weapons and ammunition.
Ballistic and fingerprint tests will be carried out on the weapons to verify whether they were used during criminal events.
The “green life” budget is enriched with a lot of drugs.
Still all buried, collected in plastic barrels, in a protected atmosphere to leave the properties of the narcotic unaltered. We are near the town of Gragnano, still among the slopes of the Lattari.
The amount of cocaine found was almost unprecedented given the local vocation for green grass. 35 and a half kilos of very fine white powder compacted in 31 cellophane bags and a commercial value that at retail would have brought in around 1 million euros.
And then 20 kilos of marijuana already dried and ready to flood the high market.
Also included in the package are a precision scale and 2 bottles of fertilizer.
In the area of Monte Faito, one of the highest peaks of the anti-Apennines of Stabia, the military found 50 cannabis plants of about 1 meter and 20 centimeters. In the locality of “Chiane”, we are again in Gragnano, another 50 plants of the same species. They were all destroyed on the spot.
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