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Castellammare, drugs on scooter: Literature pusher arrested
Castellammare di Stabia – Stopped for a check while riding his scooter, he was found with a significant amount of cocaine. For this reason, a 40-year-old man from the province of Livorno, already known to law enforcement, was arrested by the State Police on charges of illegal possession of narcotics. The...
Naples News
Letters: Wall in the historic center cut down to open a private passageway: seizure triggered
Letters - The other morning, while traffic on Corso Vittorio Emanuele III was flowing through the day's first errands, Captain Salvatore Giordano's officers stormed that fragment of historic masonry, blocking an arbitrary construction project that threatened to irreparably compromise the area's scenic beauty. The joint inspection...
Naples News
Tragedy in Lettere: Street vendor crushed to death by his van
A workday like any other turned tragic on the slopes of the Lattari Mountains. A well-known street vendor lost his life after being hit and crushed by the van he used for his daily business. The accident occurred early Thursday afternoon in...
Naples News
Lupara bianca sui Lattari: Carmine Zurlo, betrayed by a friend over a €120 shortfall
A breakthrough has been reached in the investigation into the disappearance and murder of Carmine Zurlo, the 32-year-old from Pimonte who vanished on March 14, 2022, and was never found. In the past few hours, the Carabinieri have executed a precautionary detention order issued by the investigating judge at the request of the District Directorate...
Naples News
Letters: Three-story eyesore demolished after 27 years
Letters - Twenty-seven years after a 1999 ruling, bulldozers have cleared away an illegal reinforced concrete structure three stories above ground, located on Via Capomazzo. The work, carried out by order of the Torre Annunziata District Court (Gragnano branch), is one of the prosecutor's priorities for combating illegal construction...
Naples News
Carabinieri found 32 kilos of marijuana and 40 bullets, as well as gunpowder, in the Lattari Mountains.
It was late morning when Carabinieri officers from the Castellammare di Stabia Company arrived at the home of Pasquale Manzo, 57, a resident of Lettere and already known to law enforcement. He was arrested after a check that turned into a surprise search of his residence. A...
Naples News
Pimonte, innocent man sentenced to 15 months in prison: acquitted of extortion charges
Pimonte – Antonio Chierchia's legal ordeal ends with a full acquittal, based on his lack of involvement in the crime. After more than a year in prison, the Torre Annunziata Court (President Aufieri, with Salzano and De Simone acting as assistants) overturned the indictment against the defendant, accused...
Naples News
Agerola: ATM disemboweled and stolen: another night of terror in the Lattari Mountains
It was a turbulent night in Agerola, in the Lattari Mountains: the explosion woke residents around 4:00 a.m., shattering the town's tranquility. Carabinieri from the Agerola station responded this morning to the Banca di Credito Popolare on Viale della Vittoria, where unknown assailants reportedly blew up the bank's counter and took...
Naples News
Agerola: Two elderly women defrauded of €15: 37-year-old arrested
Agerola– A traveling "predator," specialized in targeting vulnerable groups, has fallen prey to the Carabinieri. On the night of Saturday, January 31, 2026, officers from the Pescara Company, working closely with their colleagues from the Pianillo Station in Agerola, executed a detention order...
Naples News
Agerola: Scammers send taxi to pick up pensioner with jewelry
Agerola– A timely intervention by the Carabinieri yesterday afternoon in Agerola, in the province of Naples, foiled a sophisticated scam targeting a 62-year-old Roman pensioner, who was about to be robbed of cash and jewelry. The dynamics, reconstructed by law enforcement, are typical of a "fake Carabiniere," but with a...
Naples News
Lattari Mountains drug lords face 83-year prison sentences
A family organization capable of transforming Gragnano into a Campania drug dealing hub, supplied by plantations in the Lattari Mountains and protected by a network of pushers, including minors. This is the picture painted by the sentence handed down by the preliminary hearing judge Nicoletta Campanaro of the Court of Naples, who imposed a total of 83 years of...
Judicial Chronicle
Letters, convictions, and confiscation for building violations at the "Resort Paradiso"
Letters – The curtain has finally fallen on the "Paradise Resort." The evocative name of the accommodation, which promised idyllic scenery in the hamlet of Orsano, actually concealed half a century of urban planning violations and damage to the landscape. The ruling issued today by the Single Judge of the Torre Annunziata Court marks a turning point...
Naples News
Agerola, 64-year-old arrested for hiding an arsenal in his home
Agerola – A veritable domestic arsenal, consisting of rifles and a ready-to-use pistol, was discovered by Carabinieri officers at the Agerola station. The operation, launched in the past few hours, led to the arrest of Gaspare Apuzzo, a 64-year-old local man already known to law enforcement, on the serious charge...
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Attempted murder in Romania: Two brothers arrested in the Naples area
Naples – Italian police have executed a European arrest warrant issued by Romanian authorities in the Naples area against two brothers, aged 35 and 33, accused of attempted murder. The incident dates back to August 18, 2022, when the two allegedly attacked a man near...
Naples News
Anti-drug raid in Lettere: 50-year-old arrested with drugs and a gun
Letters - In a large-scale anti-drug operation last evening, officers from the Castellammare di Stabia operations unit handcuffed Giovanni Palumbo, a 50-year-old local worker already known to law enforcement. The raid on Via Gradoni San Lorenzo uncovered...
Naples News
He robbed young people between Lettere and Casola: house arrest has been extended for a 31-year-old.
Letters - Carabinieri officers from the Lettere station today executed a precautionary measure issued by the Preliminary Investigations Judge (GIP) of the Torre Annunziata Court, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office. The order orders house arrest with the use of electronic surveillance...
Naples News
Letters: 45-year-old woman reported for attempting to set fire to ex-mother-in-law's house
Lettere – An act of madness, driven by unresolved family resentment, threatened to turn tragic. A 45-year-old woman from Qualiano attempted to set fire to her ex-mother-in-law's front door in Lettere. The worst was averted by the intervention of her ex-son-in-law, who...
Chronicle Black
A cannabis processing plant in the Lattari Mountains has been discovered, with a ton of the drug seized.
A new blow to drug trafficking in the Castellammare area. In recent days, officers from the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza in Naples discovered a massive cannabis cultivation and processing facility in Lettere, in the Lattari Mountains. Inside an isolated warehouse, camouflaged among the terraces and vegetation,...
Naples News
Man threatens neighbors with gun after housework: 53-year-old removed from Pimonte
Pimonte– A trivial neighborhood dispute over the comings and goings of construction workers could have turned tragic. That's what happened last June 16th in the Lattari Mountains, where a 53-year-old man, exasperated by his neighbors' renovation work, allegedly threatened to kill them with a gun. Today, for that man,...
Castellammare di Stabia
A 62-year-old worker falls from a scaffolding in Castellammare di Stabia, his life in danger.
Castellammare di Stabia - Another workplace accident, yet another, has claimed a life and rekindled the spotlight on construction site safety. Late this afternoon, a 62-year-old worker, originally from Lettere, fell from a scaffolding approximately four meters high while carrying out construction work on a private villa...
