Palmi – State Police in Palmi arrested 18 people considered connected to a mafia driven drug organization dealing in cocaine, cannabis, heroin and hashish
Acting on orders from the prosecutor of Palmi, a squad of State police agents arrested 18 people accused of drug trafficking and illegally possessing weapons, reported Ansa news
A probe by special prosecutors started in 2010 showed that some of those arrested are closely connected to the powerful Pesce and Mazzaferro clan’s of the ‘Ndrangheta, notorious Tyrrhenian coast traffickers of drugs
During the probe police seized drugs, and confirmed customers came from all over the province of Reggio Calabria to purchase cocaine, heroin, hashish and marijuana from the alleged drug peddlers
The suspects started out as low-level drug dealers and ended up as top distributors for the drug rackets in the region of Calabria, said police
