Qualiano – He had disappeared into thin air since August 6, 2024, when he managed to escape the anti-Camorra raid that decapitated part of the Orlando-Polverino-Nuvoletta organization, historically rooted in the northern area of Naples.
Since then, Alessandro Marasco, 35, originally from Marano, had disappeared without a trace. Until yesterday morning, when the Carabinieri of the Castello di Cisterna Investigative Unit, coordinated by the Naples District Anti-Mafia Directorate, put an end to his fugitive status.
The arrest in Qualiano
The decisive raid took place on Via Di Vittorio in Qualiano. Marasco had just gotten out of a car and was standing outside a bar, chatting with some people. The operation was swift: surrounded by plainclothes officers, the fugitive offered no resistance.
During the search, investigators found several foreign phone cards and an encrypted smartphone, typical tools in the toolbox of long-term fugitives. The phone will now undergo in-depth technical analysis to verify encrypted contacts, messages, and communication channels.
The escape and the ties with Spain
A fugitive for over a year, Marasco had ended up in the crosshairs of Carabinieri investigations for his ties to the Orlando-Polverino-Nuvoletta clan.
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The investigations, conducted continuously by the Carabinieri, have reconstructed his movements, contacts, and financial transactions, allowing him to be located again in the Naples area.
The investigation and the 2024 raid
Marasco's name was among those included in the order of the Naples Court, review section, issued after the appeal of the Neapolitan Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA) in the context of a vast investigation involving 32 people.
According to investigators, the organization managed drug dealing in the northern area of Naples, paying its members monthly with so-called "mesate," actual salaries for their activities in individual drug dealing areas.
End of the fugitive period
After his arrest, Marasco was transferred to prison and placed at the disposal of the judicial authorities. His capture closes a long chapter of the investigation, but could open another: one linked to the increasingly dense and difficult to decipher criminal networks between Campania and Spain.
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