Around one hundred Catania police officers executed an order with which the investigating judge, at the request of the DDA, ordered personal precautionary measures against 13 people under investigation for association aimed at drug trafficking, possession and carrying of firearms, drug dealing. In particular, intense cocaine trafficking has been documented on the Calabria-Sicily axis. The operation was called “DEVOTION”. The service on the Sicilia News link…
Around one hundred Catania police officers executed an order with which the investigating judge of the local Court, at the request of the Etna district anti-mafia directorate, ordered personal precautionary measures against 13 people investigated in various capacities and with different profiles of responsibility by association aimed at drug trafficking, possession and carrying of firearms, drug dealing. In particular, intense cocaine trafficking has been documented on the Calabria-Sicily axis. The operation was called “Devotion”.
The recipients of the precautionary custody measure in prison are:
Giuseppe Addamo (born 1979); Bruno Cidoni (born 1974); Luigi Danilo Garozzo (born 1993); Gino Gueli (born 1989); Francesco Mannino (born 1987); Antonio Pezzano (born 1992); Angelo Ribera (born 1987); Carmelo Scilio (born 1974); Francesco Sedici (born 1971); Piestro Sedici (born 1990); Salvatore Torrisi (born 1963); Santo Vitale (born 1964); Pasquale Zangari (born 1969).
The restrictive measure, issued on the basis of investigations coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate and carried out by the Flying Squad – Anti-Drug Section of the Catania Police Headquarters, comes after a complex and detailed investigative activity started in June 2020. The investigation, supported by technical measures (telephone, environmental and telematic interceptions and video recordings), made it possible to acquire significant elements against a criminal syndicate dedicated to cocaine trafficking on the Calabria-Sicily axis.
The activities initially involved the group led by Carmelo Scilio, known as “aricchiazza”, a person considered among the most well-known cocaine traffickers operating in the Etna capital. It was possible to trace the trafficker’s cocaine supplier, the Calabrian Bruno Cidoni, who has been in business with Catania criminal groups for years and who had long established himself in Catania, having his operational base in the San Giovanni Galermo district.
The investigations therefore focused precisely on the figure of Cidoni, who allegedly managed a vast trafficking of cocaine from Calabria, having his main collaborators in the co-regional Antonio Pezzano and Pasquale Zangari and in the Catanese Santo Vitale, Pietro Sedici, Giuseppe Addamo, Angelo Ribera and Francesco Sedici. The latter would have been permanently employed as a courier during the multiple transports of large consignments of cocaine from Calabria through the use of cars equipped with special hidden compartments.
The investigative action made it possible to document, in just under six months, as many as 20 transports and deliveries of large quantities of narcotics which were allegedly carried out by the criminal association to numerous criminals from Catania, some of whom were believed to be linked to various mafia clans in the capital . During the investigation, several seizures of narcotic substances (a total of 11 kg of cocaine) and weapons were also made (seizure of a 38 special caliber revolver pistol with abraded serial number and related ammunition). 90,300 euros in cash were also found, a sum walled up in a wall of Cidoni’s home.
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