New blow to drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons in Cosentino. Today, the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Cosenza carried out an order of precautionary measure against nine people, issued by the investigating judge of the Court at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Cosenza. The accusations, in various capacities, concern crimes related to the detention, cultivation and drug dealing (cocaine, hashish and marijuana), as well as violations in the field of war weapons and gunning municipalities.
The measures adopted include 2 house arrest, 3 residence obligations and 4 presentation obligations to the judicial police.
Ties with an attempted robbery of 2022
The operation represents an evolution of the criminal proceeding started following the attempted aggravated robbery of June 15, 2022 at the Post Office of Marano Marchesato (CS). For that episode, two precautionary measures had already been carried out on 10 July against as many suspects, also accused of multiple transfers of drugs and the sale of a firearm.
Cultivation of cannabis and war weapons
The investigation, conducted by the Carabinieri Station of Castrolibero with the support of the Operational Section of the Compagnia di Cosenza, made it possible to reconstruct a criminal network active in the cultivation of Indian hemp in two artisan greenhouses, for a total of 357 plants.
Not only drugs: during the searches, an “pineapple” M-75 handmade M-75 hand bomb was also found, complete with Eastern Europe, complete with a trigger and fully functional, as well as an empty tank for 9×21 cartridges and numerous ammunition of various caliber.
Arrests in flagrance and kidnappings
Among the nine recipients of the measures, one was arrested in the act on 10 July, after being found in possession of 340 grams of marijuana, a precision balance and material for packaging, during a home search following the notification of the notice for interrogation.
During the investigations, moreover, a surprise woman was arrested in possession of a 6.35 caliber clandestine gun, with an abraded serial number and tank with six cartridges. In another episode, a couple was stopped with over 5 kg of drugs aboard their car: 1.5 kg of hashish divided into 15 loaves and 3.5 kg of marijuana in six envelopes.