Children of about 10 years involved in drug dealing with the role of collecting the money and indicating to the "customers" where to collect the drug.
This is what emerges from the "Quadrilatero" operation - the one formed by streets Avola, San Damiano, Testai and Piazza Cosma and Damiano - of the Carabinieri of Catania, who arrested twenty people. Also found an accounting book (the "map of the squares of spaccio ”) where the proceeds of the illicit activity and the quantity of drugs sold daily were noted.
Two attempted extortions were also discovered, in a pharmacy and a car dealership, and a successful one, with the "return horse" method to return a stolen car to the owner.
Involved three criminal groups that managed three thriving "drug dealing squares" in the area: a vast round of cocaine, crack and marijuana was unearthed in the historic San Cristoforo district. And in particular in the area of “San Cocimo”, a stronghold of the affiliates of the homonymous group headed by Maurizio Zuccaro, part of the Santapaola-Ercolano mafia family.
Against the suspects, the carabinieri of the provincial command of Catania, supported by colleagues from the operational intervention company of the XII Sicily Regiment and the helicopter and dog groups, carried out a precautionary custody order issued by the investigating judge at the request of the DDA, which hypothesizes, for various reasons, the crimes of attempted extortion, extortion in competition, association aimed at trafficking and selling drugs, aggravated by the mafia method.
(Unioneonline / vl)
