He brought the drugs to his son detained in Foggia prison. For this reason, a 62-year-old man from Taranto was arrested in the penitentiary together with his son. The gesture is that of a parent bringing croissants to their hospitalized child. The place and product of this story are very different: the hospital was prison and the product was drugs. Discovered by the prison police officers, the father ended up under house arrest while the son, already detained for another reason, will have to face another trial for detention for the purpose of dealing drugs. The protagonists are two people from Taranto, aged 62 and 31. For the alleged father-pusher, the prosecutor of Foggia had requested detention in prison, but the investigating judge of the Foggia Court, at the start of the validation hearing, opted for house arrest, accepting the request formulated by the man’s defender, the lawyer Luigi Danucci.
The case
The facts date back to last Tuesday when the parent resident in Carosino went to Foggia to visit his son who is serving twelve years of imprisonment in the Capitana district house, the result of a cumulation of sentences for robberies. Having passed the checks unscathed, the man took a seat in the interview room where he awaited the arrival of his son.
Among the normal pleasantries, something strange did not escape the surveillance officer who became suspicious of some movements of the father who was handing a pack of croissants to his son. The policeman, as stated in the request for validation of the arrest, had not missed the movement of the parent who was furtively taking something out of his trousers and placing it in the package of croissants.
The kidnapping
Once the action was blocked, the prison police officer seized the package, causing the plan to fail. In addition to the brioche, it contained three bars of hashish for a total of 243 grams from which approximately 2,500 daily doses of the active ingredient would have been obtained. This resulted in both being arrested for possession for the purpose of drug dealing.
The same thing had happened, again in the Foggia prison, to a 36-year-old Mandurian who ended up in a vast investigation conducted by the Guardia di Finanza and concluded last March 14 with the arrest of 16 people, including staff of the penitentiary institute suspected of having facilitated the entry of drugs during the interviews. The Mandurian woman who is now under house arrest is accused of having supplied the drugs to her detained son thanks to the complicity of a nurse, an employee of the Foggia Local Health Authority, on duty in the infirmary of the Foggia prison.
