Reggio Calabria – Having escaped a raid by the Carabinieri of the provincial command of Reggio Calabria on 29 February, Sebastian Ionut Gutuman, 23, was arrested in Spain, in Pamplona. There was a European arrest warrant hanging over him as part of the ‘Perseverant’ operation on drug flows among young people in the Gioia Tauro plain. The investigation, coordinated by the prosecutor Emanuele Crescenti and the deputy Davide Lucisano of the Palmi prosecutor’s office, started in March 2020 after the complaint from the father of a young drug user who turned to the Carabinieri of Taurianova and San Martino di Taurianova. Investigators discovered a thriving drug market with a center in Taurianova and branches in Rosarno, Platì and Gerocarne, where the narcotic suppliers were based. The prisoner and his family led a normal life in Pamplona, in total anonymity. In the meantime, however, the carabinieri had managed to break the ‘intercom’ telephone circuit used by Gutuman and his accomplices and were monitoring them. When the young man’s mother, speaking to a relative, revealed that she had left Italy and was in Spain, the International Cooperation service of the Ministry of the Interior was activated, which, having made contact with the Spanish counterpart, allowed the exchange of information between the carabinieri and the gendarmes of the Guardia Civil. Gutuman was returned to Italy and is in custody awaiting trial.
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