Messina: Carabinieri's major anti-drug operation: 112 arrests

In the early hours of the morning today June 25, 2024, the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command from Messina have carried out a large operation in Sicily, Calabria, and other locations in the national territory and abroad, with the execution of precautionary measures issued by the GIP of the Court of Messina at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office, against 112 people (85 recipients of precautionary custody in jail e 27 of custody of the arrest, Of which 3 edited by the Sicilian Regional Investigative Unit of the Penitentiary Police), believed to be involved - in various capacities - in the crimes of "association aimed at detention, trafficking, cultivation and sale of narcotics", as well as for "self-laundering", “fraudulent transfer of values”, "illegal carrying and alteration of weapons", "extortion" and other crimes.

The restrictive measures arise from the results of three separate investigations, conducted by the Carabinieri of the Messina Sud and Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto Companies, all under the coordination of the Messina District Anti-Mafia Directorate, which have simultaneously dismantled multiple criminal organizations active in drug trafficking, in the city of Messina, in a Barcelonan and in the areas Nebroidea and Tyrrhenian of the province with connections to Calabrian criminal structures and subjects also active in Campania, Lombardy and abroad.