Thirty-three vendors and drug dealers for VIPs and kids in jail sorrento coast. Two years of meticulous research. Investigations, arrests, releases. Yesterday at dawn the new ordinance of the Prosecutor of Torre Annunziata. In December, a barrage of arrests, cancellation of the Review due to “lack of evaluations by the independent judge” in the provision, all free and yesterday a new ordinance. For the third time, for this reason, a maxi anti-drug operation is repeated that closes long investigations. An anomaly that forces the Torre Annunziata prosecutor’s office to repeatedly request the same arrests for serious crimes related to drug trafficking against young and very young people, capable of spending up to a thousand euros a month buying drugs.
Nine people ended up in prison yesterday, thirteen under house arrest (including seven with electronic bracelets), another seven were subjected to a ban on residence in the province of Naples and four to the obligation to report to the judicial police, for the same crimes. contested last December. The investigations, carried out by the carabinieri of the Sorrento company and coordinated by the Torre Annunziata prosecutor’s office. Nuncio Fragliasso, substitute Emilio Prisco) have made it possible to reconstruct the entire network of suppliers and traffickers, with more than 184 charges and a thousand documented incidents of cocaine, marijuana and crack trafficking, also thanks to camera recordings near a scale converted into a shopping mall in downtown Vico Equense.
The investigations began in the summer of 2020 and were closed only in the winter of 2021, in a true itinerant journey in the various drug trafficking squares of the Neapolitan area. Everything from Vico Equense, from the popular buildings of via Sconducci, to via Tavernola in Castellammare di Stabia, in Gragnano, in the Penniniello neighborhood of Torre Annunziata and in Piano Napoli in Boscoreale, including supplies and cocaine retail and crack: turnover of 70,000 euros on weekends. in cell Luigi Rapicano and Giuseppe Manfusoaccused of being in charge of the Vico Equense drug trafficking ring, along with Andres Di Somma. Coca for students and young people from the nightlife in the Sorrento peninsula.
New arrest also for Salvatore Carpentersprominent element of the “fourth system” and considered responsible for the Penniniello store in Torre Annunziata, with Paschal Curcio resident in the same district, anna weaver (mother of carpenters) and Maria Valito. The pusher of Boscoreale’s Piano Napoli is also in the cell Crescenzo Palumbo, said Enzo, who allegedly ran a real drug supermarket straight from house arrest, with some of the aides yet to be identified. In prison too Rafael Perillo, considered very close to the environments of the D’Alessandro de Castellammare clan. The other Vicans are under house arrest. Ugo and Baldassarre Rapicano, Domenico Pulzella, Stabiese Michela Rubicondo, Luciano Polito, Salvatore Rossetti, Roberto Ferraro, Luigi Schettino, Vincenzo D’Auria, as well as Maddalena Gemignani, Stefano Scalella and Francesco Falanga (from the Torre Annunziata). Also investigated with less distressing measures are some of those with clean records in the Stabia area.
During the investigation, a pistol with ammunition was also seized and a disturbing image emerged involving many “good” families from the Sorrento Peninsula. Among the regular “clients” of one of the drug traffickers would also be the son of a professional, who spent more than thousands of euros a month on drugs. A lot of cocaine, sold mainly to students, who began a “procession” early in the afternoon to reach the dealers. Among these scions of the “good” families of Sorrento, Sant’Agnello, Piano, Meta and Vico Equense.
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