Drugs in the Gioia Tauro plain traveled on Telegram: 16 arrests
February 29, 2024 in Foreground , Reggio Calabria 0
18 suspects subjected to precautionary measures. This is the result of the " Perseverant " investigation , coordinated by the Prosecutor Emanuele Crescenti and the Deputy Prosecutor Davide Lucisano of the Palmi Prosecutor's Office and conducted by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Reggio Calabria, concerning a complex round of drug dealing , the result strongly rooted within the territorial context of the Municipalities of Taurianova and Rosarno.

The illicit activity was not interrupted even during the Covid pandemic, the restrictions of which were largely circumvented by the suspects who, to reduce the risk of checks, had put their cars aside and started delivering the narcotic by bicycle, directly to homes of buyers.
For maintain contact with the latter, given the ban on gatherings, all communications were carried out online, with Telegram channels, or other messaging applications, dedicated precisely to matching the supply and demand of narcotics. Numerous sales were found, for a turnover that investigators estimated at more than one million euros.

On the basis of the evidence thus collected, according to the accusation hypothesis supported by the Palmi GIP who signed the precautionary order, it is believed that the suspects, thanks to supply sources on the national territory and abroad, are involved at least fifty criminal events.