Cancellation with postponement of the ordinance of the Court of the Review of Catanzaro who had confirmed the custodial measure in prison against Massimo Stella. The sixth criminal section of the Supreme Court of Cassation at the outcome of the hearing of 18 March 2025 and the discussion of the lawyer Massimiliano Carnovale Defender of Massimo Stella canceled the ordinance of the Court of the Review of Catanzaro in full with postponement which had confirmed the order of pre -trial detention of the investigating judge carried out in November 2024.
Stella is investigated within the Artemis operation for criminal association aimed at the trafficking of narcotic substances, crime aggravated by the methods and mafia concession, in the present case by the crash gang and to have without authorization carried out the cultivation and subsequent processing of the marijuana plantation as well as multiple episodes of transfer.
At the center of the Artemis operation the alleged illegal activities that would have been put in place by the alleged crash gang in the territory of Lamezia Terme and the hinterland between the provinces of Catanzaro and Vibo Valentia and in particular between Maida and Jacurso and Cortale.
The Cassation also canceled the order with which the Court of Catanzaro confirmed the order of pre -trial detention in prison pronounced against Pasquale Cappellodefended by lawyers Michele Cerminara and Antonio Larussa. Cappello is investigated, as part of the Artemis operation procedure, for the crime of association aimed at aggravated drug trafficking. The Court will therefore be called to fully re -evaluate the applicant’s precautionary framework. The appeal proposed by the lawyers also accepted Aldo Ferraro and Antonio Procopio in the interest of Mario Carchidialso arrested for the crime of criminal association aimed at drug trafficking with the aggravating mafia and a series of episodes of purchase of drugs aggravated by the aim of facilitating a mafia gang.
The Court of Cassation canceled with postponement the decision that had been made by the Court of Freedom of Catanzaro to the outcome of the review judgment, for a new evaluation on the specific point of the existence of the mafia aggravating fact that the defense had censored in the Court of Cassation.
The Court of Cassation also pronounced on Antonio Guadagnuolo (defended by the lawyers Salvatore Staiano and Renzo Andricciola). The defenders had challenged the provision to reject the revocation of the precautionary measure issued by the Court of the Review of Catanzaro. Guadagnuolo Antonio – replied of the associative crime aimed at drug dealing aggravated by the mafia method, for having favored the gang of the cracations. The Court of Cassation, today pronouncing, canceled without postponement on the mafia aggravating circumstance, and has canceled for a new revaluation of the Court of Catanzaro for the associative crime.