Blow to the Camorra of the lower Lazio, 19 arrests against the 2 clans. In Santi Cosma and Damiano, Castelforte, Minturno and neighboring municipalities, about 200 Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri of Latina, with the help of helicopters and canine units of the Arma, carried out an order issued by the GIP at the Court of Rome, at the request of the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate.

The accusations against the suspects are, for various reasons, of mafia-type criminal association, association aimed at the sale of drugs, illegal possession of common guns, extortion, robbery, damage and fire, all crimes aggravated by the mafia method.

Clan headed by Antonio Antinozzi who, following a split from the Mendico-Riccardi clan, had formed an autochthonous group structured on a family basis. He used violent methods and intimidation. He used weapons and explosive devices creating a climate of subjugation and silence among the population. The existence of two associations dedicated to drug trafficking was therefore established.

Already in 2007 they had been recognized as belonging to the Mendico-Riccardi clan whose existence had been established by the Latina Court of Assizes following the 1990s investigation, also conducted by the Latina Investigative Unit.

The relative sentence, issued on 17 July 2009, confirmed by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Rome on 15 October 2010 and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in 2012, had recognized the existence until 2001, in the territory of the province of Latina, of a mafia-like organization. It was connected to the largest criminal organization of the Casalesi clan, promoted directly and organized by Ettore Mendico and Orlandino Riccarci and to which Antonio Antinozzi , among others, belonged.