CORIGLIANO-ROSSANO – Yesterday afternoon the NORM Carabinieri. – Operational and Mobile Radio Unit – of the Territorial Department of Corigliano Rossano, with the investigative coordination of the Prosecutor’s Office of Castrovillari, directed by the Chief Prosecutor Alessandro D’Alessio, arrested the convicted criminal DGT cl. 78 and the CF pair cl. 88 and FC cl 97, all seriously suspected of possessing over 2.2 kg of cocaine pure and the first also of the crime of «resistance to a public official».
The risky maneuvers of two cars, a Mercedes, attracted the attention of the Carabinieri employed in territorial control services.Class B» and an Audi «Q3», who proceeded at a distance from each other, but with a perfectly identical route and at extremely high speed. The two cars were noticed at the motorway exit «North inlay», from where they then crossed the municipality of Spezzano Albanese, until arriving in the Apollinara district of Corigliano. Given that the vehicles represented a real danger for other road users and considered that that behavior could conceal other potentially illicit conduct, more police vehicles were brought to the scene which, in constant coordination with the Castrovillari Public Prosecutor’s Office, they opted to order the two vehicles to stop and proceed to check their occupants.
In that context, the soldiers employed in the verification implemented all the safety procedures in order to prevent any accidents but, despite the precautions taken, the driver of the Audi tried to prevent their action by trying to block the road to the Army’s cars. and trying to encourage the escape of the other two subjects on board the Mercedes. A reckless maneuver which, fortunately, ended without any collision and which did not have the desired effects. In fact, the operators managed to stop both vehicles and, having assessed the circumstances and the legal requirements, proceeded to search the stopped subjects.
The search operations carried out in the vehicles made it possible to recover, in the couple’s car, a backpack with two blocks of cocaine pure, with a total weight of over 2.2 kilograms, while a sum was found in the possession of the other subject, the amount of which was not justified and, for this reason, was subjected to criminal seizure.
The three arrested people, after the legal duties, were associated with the Castrovillari prison, where they will remain at the disposal of the competent Judicial Authority.
The restrictive measure, adopted in the flagrant violation, demonstrates how the attention of the Armed Forces and the Judiciary to crimes involving drugs continues to remain extremely high. The operation described undoubtedly made it possible to avoid how a significant quantity of drugs could end up in the drug dealing squares of the Riviera.
