Arrested for the alleged crime of «undue access to devices suitable for communication by detained individuals» and «possession of a narcotic substance», an Assistant Chief of the Penitentiary Police serving in the Rossano prison. The Carabinieri of the Operational and Radiomobile Sections of the Territorial Department of Corigliano Rossano carried out the measure, with the investigative coordination of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Castrovillari, directed by Alessandro D’Alessio.
The events took place in the early morning of yesterday, when the Penitentiary Police operator was about to reach the Rossano prison facility, where he was supposed to carry out his duties of supervising the conduct of the inmates. Near the prison, the Assistant Chief he showed evident discomfort when he was subjected to a normal road traffic check. Reason that led the military of the Radiomobile Section to delve deeper into the investigation they were carrying out.
The resulting inspection made it possible to recover, inside the interested party’s car, a casing that contained three apparently new smartphones, for whose possession the interested party was unable to provide any justification. Furthermore, in the subsequent phases of the search of the vehicle, the operators also recovered a second container, packaged in the same way as the first, where the relevant battery chargers had been placed. It was therefore considered potentially It is plausible that the telephones were intended to be introduced into the prison facilityso the search operations were also extended to the home of the Penitentiary Police operator.
During the searches carried out a quantity of «cocaine”. On the basis of the evidence collected, the Assistant Chief was arrested in the act of committing a crime. At the disposal of the magistrate on duty at the Castrovillari Prosecutor’s Office, the man was placed under house arrest, where he will remain at the disposal of the investigating AG.