The financiers of the Provincial Command of Crotone – coordinated by the Prosecutor led by Guarascio – in recent days have surveyed and monitored some agricultural areas of the Pythagorean Province for the specific purpose of identifying the possible presence of illegal crops of marijuana.
Thanks also to the important aid of the Aeronavale Operational Department of Vibo Valentia, an imposing illegal activity of cultivation of cannabis sativa on a large rural area, attributable to a construction entrepreneur, was identified in the district of the Municipality of Isola di Capo Rizzuto.
Thus, the synergistic maneuver developed by land and by air by the yellow flames, made it possible to start a judicial police operation that concerned the entire area, leading to the discovery, in a portion of the vast agricultural fund and skillfully concealed among the grain coverage crops, of 917 marijuana plants, in an advanced state of flowering and ready for harvest.
Furthermore, the search of the military of the group have made it possible to document the destination of one of the sheds of relevance of the drying property and a place of storage and packaging of the drug, a viaticum essential for the subsequent phase of marketing. Here, in fact, an additional 3 kg were found and seized. of inflorescences ready for consumption, a rudimentary fan and a rudimentary rapper useful for the drying of plants and also various material for packaging.
At the disposal of the magistrate on duty of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Crotone, the entrepreneur responsible for the conduct of cultivation and illegal possession of the huge quantity of drugs was placed under house arrest.
A serious blow inflicted on criminal organizations that exploit the territory of the province of Crotone for the production of narcotics, since it has allowed to remove the illegal market from the illegal market a quantity of marijuana of over a ton that could have fruity an undue profit of over 3 million euros.