It was run by the son-in-law and nephew of Gaetano DiLorenzo, the 62-year-old right-hand man of Mario Esposito, founder of the Sessa Aurunca clan of the same name, the thriving drug dealing hub dismantled by the Carabinieri who notified eight arrests.
The blitz by the military comes the day after Di Lorenzo's release from prison, having served his sentence. The arrests concern Ernest Simeon e Joseph DiLorenzo (both ended up in prison), respectively son-in-law and nephew of the boss, two other affiliates Luca and Carlo D'Angelo, together with their respective partners and two other people.
The investigation, coordinated by the Anti-Mafia District Directorate of Naples, confirms the full operation of the clan, allied with the Casalese mafia: from the narrow streets of the historic part of Sessa Aurunca where they lived - it emerged from the investigations - Simeone and Di Lorenzo jr militarily controlled drug dealing throughout the town in the Caserta area and in the entire area up to the sea and the city of Mondragone.
The pushers had to all be organic to the clan
Simeone and Di Lorenzo “imposed” their law on all the other pushers in Sessa Aurunca, who could not sell unless they were part of the group, and if they did so independently, they were threatened and beaten; the two suspects also threatened their customers, who could only get supplies from them.
In most cases – the Carabinieri of Sessa Aurunca commanded by Giovanni Russo have ascertained – the name and the important relationship of the two were enough to overcome the conflicts that arose with other groups of pushers, or in any case to gain respect. The group also had a lot of money available, as emerges from the seizure made by the Carabinieri of a sum of 14 thousand euros found in the nearby municipality of Cellole at the home of a 28-year-old pusher believed to be part of the group.
The Esposito clan is one of the few still truly operational in the Caserta area: it earns its money mainly by dealing drugs in large quantities and demanding protection money from entrepreneurs.
Gaetano Di Lorenzo released after 20 years in prison
Now he can also count on a “big shot” who has just been released from prison, the historic boss Gaetano Di Lorenzo, arrested in Spain and released after more than twenty years of detention. Investigators now fear that Di Lorenzo may favor the aggregation around him of characters gravitating towards the criminal environment, as happened in Casal di Principe. For this reason, the movements of the 62-year-old will be constantly monitored by the police.
Di Lorenzo was arrested in 2002 in Spain, in Rinco della Vittoria, near the Andalusian city of Malaga, where he had been a fugitive for six years, and where he had taken refuge to escape the many investigations concerning him. During that operation, the other fugitive from the clan was also arrested Francis Sugary, while the Spanish police arrested him for aiding and abetting Ernest Simeon, then 22 years old.
Extradited to Italy, Di Gaetano was convicted of extortion and Camorra association but never of murder; hence his release from prison, even though he is charged with an old Camorra murder from 1990, carried out by Di Lorenzo on the orders of the clan leaders of Mondragone and Sessa Aurunca, respectively Augusto La Torre and Mario Esposito.
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