The Police executed in the province of Crotone and in various regions a precautionary custody order issued by the District Judge of Catanzaro, at the request of the DDA, against 44 people accused of belonging to a criminal association that allegedly managed a vast trafficking of narcotics and weapons.
Forty of the arrested persons were ordered to be held in prison and the remaining four to be placed under house arrest. Five other suspects were also notified of the obligation to sign .
The investigations that led to the operation, coordinated by the Central Operations Service of the State Police, were conducted by the Crotone Flying Squad, which acquired, according to a press release from the Police Headquarters, " serious circumstantial evidence regarding the existence of an armed criminal association led by some individuals from the Pythagorean city, already burdened by previous convictions ".
(Online Union)
