They called it “Devotion” the operation with which the Catania Police dismantled the agreements between Sicilians and Calabrians for the arrival of cocaine on the island.
Since the early hours of this morning, around 100 operators of the State Police have been engaged in the execution of an order with which the Judge for Preliminary Investigations at the local Court, at the request of the Etna District Anti-Mafia Directorate, has ordered personal precautionary measures in against 13 subjects under investigation for various reasons and with different profiles of responsibility for the crimes of association aimed at trafficking in narcotic substances such as cocaine, possession and carrying of firearms, drug dealing. In particular, intense cocaine trafficking has been documented on the Calabria-Sicily axis.
Cocaine drug used throughout the island
Cocaine is an increasingly used drug in Sicily. This is demonstrated by various arrests around the island but also by trafficking that continues to grow in number and frequency. the last operation that intercepted a load of cocaine in the Palermo area was conducted, in that case, by the financial police.
The financiers of the provincial command of Palermo seized 3 and a half kilos of cocaine hidden in a van with Polish license plates during a check in Viale Regione Siciliana. Ondrej Kara, 46 years old, born in the Czech Republic and on the run since 2020 since a European arrest warrant had been issued, were arrested.
The discovery of the drugs
At the time of the checks he showed documents registered to a Pole Tomasz Piotr Witek who died in 2021. A woman Andrea Patechakisova, 48 years old, born in the Czech Republic was arrested with Kara. The soldiers of the economic and financial police unit stopped the vehicle . During the checks, thanks to the nose of the Elixir dog from the ready-to-use group, three bags were found with cocaine inside. The narcotic placed on the market would have brought in 300 thousand euros.
