Police from the flying squad of Lecce delivered a devastating blow to the mafia drug market in the southeastern part of Puglia and arrested seventeen subjects, suspected of smuggling and selling drugs
Acting on orders from anti-mafia magistrates in Lecci , police dragged away in handcuffs seventeen suspected drug dealers , accused of smuggling and selling heroin and cocaine, while acting as agents of the Puglian mafia
Prosecutors say the operation was part of an ongoing probe dubbed ” Coffee Drug “, involving the investigation of forty-two suspected members of a mafia driven drug organization who used violence and a sawed-off shotgun
All are accused of transfer and sale of drugs, aggravated by ties to organized crime
