Police blitz, the organization acted with threats and extortion, including drug trafficking among its criminal activities

Thanks to a dense criminal network they would have monopolized the Syracuse fruit and vegetable market. In the early hours of the morning the police blitz. Mafia criminal association aimed at extortion, trafficking of drugs, thefts in homes and farms. These are the accusations made in various ways to the 19 people against whom the investigating judge of the court of Catania has ordered the arrest. The investigation activity, carried out by the Syracuse mobile team, with the help of the police in Catania, has made it possible to ascertain the operations in the territories of the southern part of the province, where a criminal gropu, thanks to the intimidation force exercised by its members, it had monopolized and conditioned the entire fruit and vegetable market in the area. Illicit activities also involved extortion, the trafficking of drugs, the commission of theft to homes and farms. Sixty units of the State Police, with the Crime Prevention Department of Catania engaged in the "Araba Fenice" operation.