The well-known Lo Russo clan had been defunct for several years, but now an operation by the DDA against as many alleged "emissaries" of a criminal group which was deemed by the investigators “ A sub-division of the Lo Russo clan”.

Raffaele Petriccione , Cesare Duro , Giovanni Perfetto , Salvatore Di Vaio , Fabio Pecoraro , Alessandro Festa , Vincenzo Pagliaro and another person ended up in handcuffs . The accusation for all of them is of extortion aggravated by the mafia method. An operation that reveals the operation of the group which includes characters already in the past who ended up in investigations into the local evil, such as Raffaele Petriccione who jumped to the head of the news a few years ago for a daring escape 'enriched' by a gun aimed at the agents, or like Giovanni Perfetto, brother of the better known Raffaele known as 'muss e scign' and uncle of Ciro sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Vincenzo Di Napoli . In the group also Cesare Duro, arrested a few years ago in Frattamaggiore after a daring escape from the police.