State Police - vast anti-drug operation is underway in Salerno and Catania

In Catania, in the territory of the municipality of Adrano, the policemen of the mobile team are carrying out application measures of pre-trial detention in prison against 14 people believed, in various capacities, responsible for crimes of association for crimes aimed at trafficking and drug dealing drug abuse, arms offenses, extortion with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated the Scalisi mafia gang.

In Salerno, on the other hand, precautionary measures are being carried out against 25 subjects, held responsible, for various reasons, for an association aimed at the illicit trafficking of narcotic substances, with an operational base in the city of Salerno.

About 150 agents are involved in the operation, in various municipalities in the province of Salerno, with the help of anti-drug dog units and the air support of a helicopter of the State Police, with the collaboration of the Mobile Teams of Naples, Verbania and Cosenza.

The Verona Traffic Police instead seized 5 kilograms of heroin and arrested a 38-year-old Milanese.

The young man was stopped while traveling along the regional road 434, at the junction for Valais, in the municipality of Oppeano on board his Mini Countryman. Given that the man appeared to have been reported for injuries, family abuse and drugs, the traffic police officers

they deemed it appropriate to extend the control to the vehicle and did not find it difficult to trace in the boot a wrapper completely covered with scotch tape.

State Police - vast anti-drug operation is underway in Salerno and Catania