Major anti-drug operation between MilanoVarese and Como: 11 arrests and 14 charges filed. A syndicate that ran the cocaine "Quadrato" has been dismantled.

A large anti-drug operation involved several municipalities in the Milan and Lombardy hinterland this morning — Bollate, Garbagnate Milanese, Novate Milanese, Baranzate, Arese, Senago, Paderno Dugnano, Cantù and Caronno Pertusella — where the Carabinieri of the Rho Group they carried out aprecautionary custody order issued by GIP of Milano, at the request of Public Prosecutor's Office – Seventh Department.

In all, 11 Guests have been reached by the provision (3 pipelines in prison and 8 places to arrest) Why seriously suspected of association for the purpose of trafficking, possession and dealing of cocaine. Other 14 Guests were reported at large, while they have been 27 house searches were carried out which led to others 2 arrests in flagrante delicto, to drug possession and possession of an illegal weapon.

The investigation, conducted for six months by the Carabinieri of the Bollate Station and coordinated by power of attorney of Milano, has allowed us to reconstruct the complex structure of the organization, which operated with a rigid hierarchy has always been division of tasks: from sourcing the substance to packaging, up to distribution throughout the country.

At the top stood out the figure of “Bad”, 35-year-old construction entrepreneur, who managed the cocaine supply and the distributor networkTo coordinate daily activities, a intermediate figure who acted as an intermediary between the boss and the pushers. The drug dealing squares, organised in “squares”, were active especially in Branded and in the surrounding municipalities. doses, packaged in heat-sealed cellophane in a square shape, were requested via telephone numbers saved in the address book with the name “Square”.

The drug dealing took place in isolated parking lots, in public gardens or in front of supermarkets, but also Chef at Home, where the pushers delivered the doses hidden in pizza boxes o passing them through the windows. A real criminal logistics, which ensured a constant flow of cocaine to the local market. During the operations, they were found and seized:

• a Beretta 7.65 caliber pistol serial number abraded e 14 cartridges,

• 260 grams of cocaine,

• 14.240 euros in cash,

• packaging tools of the drug.

Furthermore, a person was arrested young Italian from 2003, found in possession of 220 doses of cocaine e 235 € cash.
His arrest is added to the six arrests in flagrante already carried out in the past months and two complaints, with the total seizure of 328 doses of cocaine and 1.820 € proceeds of illegal activity.

The operation confirms the effectiveness of the action of the Carabinieri of the Rho Group in contrast to drug trafficking, the result of a detailed and integrated investigative work which has allowed us to dismantle an entire criminal network rooted in the Milanese and Lombardy area.