Drugs: Cc blitz in Catania, boss gave orders from prison

(ANSA) - SAN GIOVANNI LA ​​PUNTA, June 28 - An alleged organization accused of managing drug trafficking and dealing, in particular marijuana and cocaine, in San Giovanni LaPunta and in the nearby Etna villages was defeated by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Catania.

Military personnel have carried out a precautionary custody order, issued by the investigating magistrate, against 17 suspects.

Among the alleged crimes, in various titles, also the criminal association.

    From the investigations of the carabinieri of the Gravina diCatania company, coordinated by the Dda Etna, it emerged that the alleged promoter and traffic organizer would have been a prisoner of the Caltagirone prison who communicated with the outside thanks to a mobile phone illegally entered the penitentiary.

According to the indictment, the association was able to collect over 10,000 euros a week from the drug dealer and cocaine.

   The operation, called Koala, also shed light on the group's clients.

Among them, it is explained in a note by the investigators, there would have been consumers who were earners of citizenship income and who, according to the Carabinieri, would also have used money from the subsidy to buy the drug.

Among the suppliers of the association, the figure of a clean criminal emerged, who has a son in custody and in business with the top of the criminal organization, and who, according to the accusation, would have used the premises of the patronage café he managed in the center of Catania to carry out drug deliveries.

(HANDLE).