The Carabinieri of Castel Volturno, on the orders of the investigating judge of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, arrested an Italian couple accused of running a thriving cocaine and hashish dealing hub.
The man was placed under house arrest, while the woman was locked up in prison. The investigation, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, also includes two other women investigated at large.
The investigation began in August 2021, when the Carabinieri of the Grazzanise station stopped a car with some drug users on board along the road leading to Castel Volturno.
The military seized some cocaine and learned from the users that the drug had been purchased in the municipality on the Domitian coast, by some Italians who lived in one of the many alleys that lead from the Domiziana state road towards the sea.
On the orders of the Public Prosecutor's Office led by Pierpaolo Bruni, the Carabinieri of the Santa Maria Capua Vetere Company installed a camera in the alley, which allowed them to reconstruct the drug dealing activity.
Dozens of the pushers' customers were stopped during the investigations, which led to thirty-three seizures of cocaine and hashish, all linked to the drug dealing center managed by the group of Italians.
This is an almost unique case in an area where the majority of drug dealing squares, from which users and other pushers from all the provinces of Campania and other regions get their supplies, are managed by drug dealers linked to the Nigerian mafia.
The four Italians involved in the business dismantled this morning, apparently had no conflict with the African pushers, on the contrary, they sold drugs at a rapid pace using their own homes as a base for dealing.
Article published on March 7, 2024 - 14pm
