They wanted to pull off a spectacular move, a drive-by in the same place where their cousin, the young boss of the Conocal district of Ponticelli, Vincenzo Costanzo, known as Ciuculill , had been killed two nights earlier . Instead, the two young men ran into a police car that arrested them.
They have been in jail since last night on charges of possession, illegal possession of a weapon, firing shots, resisting a public official, and receiving stolen goods.
They are Gaetano Maranzino , 23, and Matteo Nocerino , 19. The former is married to the daughter of a D'Amico boss, the latter is related to the other on his mother's side and is an amateur footballer with a past in the youth teams of Inter and Spal.
They were arrested last night after firing shots into the air in Piazza Volturno, where their cousin Vincenzo Costanzo was killed on the night the Naples football team was celebrating their third Scudetto, and after a long chase with the police that ended on Via Argine.
In fact, last night, officers from the San Giovanni-Barra Police Station , while carrying out territorial control operations, while passing along Via Volta, noticed two scooters , each with two people on board, speeding; the drivers of the two motorcycles, upon seeing the patrol car, accelerated to evade the control despite having been ordered to stop.
One of the two fugitives pointed the gun at the officers
A chase ensued, during which one of the two vehicles managed to disappear, while the passenger of the other scooter, at the height of the Via Argine overpass, pulled out a gun and pointed it at the officers. When they reached the roundabout with Via Mario Palermo on Via Argine, the officers stopped the fleeing motorcycle.
At that moment, they blocked and disarmed the passenger of a 7,65 caliber pistol without ammunition, which had been found stolen in October 2022 , while the driver attempted to flee on foot but an officer, to discourage the criminal action, fired a shot in the air and blocked him.
Furthermore, it emerged that the scooter they were riding had been robbed last night on Via Ausilio in Naples . Furthermore, the police confirmed that, shortly before, they had fired several shots in the air in Piazza Volturno and then quickly fled in the direction of Piazza Garibaldi. They had been spotted by an off-duty officer who reported them to the Operations Center.
(in the photo Piazza Volturno, the place of the murder and the shooting of the two arrested Matteo Nocerino and Gaetano Maranzino)
