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CALABRIA FF

 Acting on orders from Reggio Calabria  anti-mafia prosecutors police on Thursday arrested Twenty-three alleged associates of the Ascone gang of  the Calabrian Mafia or ‘Ndrangheta  accused  of  money laundering  trafficking in drugs and weapons, and mafia association

Authorities say the roundup is part of two police  probes  ”All Inside” and ”All Clean,” which targeted the powerful Pesce and Bellocco clans based in the southern Calabrian  town of Rosano

Italian Police investigators were tipped off  about trouble between the Ascone and Sabatino gangs when their bosses in  the Bellocco and Pesce clans sought to settle the dispute