Salerno/Agro/Vesuviani. Drugs from South America, cocaine and marijuana, hit the streets of Salerno thanks to the Reggino gangs, an intermediary and some accomplices of Neapolitan origin. Blitz with 14 arrests (11 in prison and 3 under house arrest plus an obligation to stay) carried out yesterday by the Dia of Salerno on the orders of the investigating judge who accepted the request of the Anti-Mafia prosecutor's office (prosecutor Cannavale). These are people who also reside in Northern Italy and all have contacts in Reggino and therefore with the Ndrangheta. According to the accusatory hypothesis shared by the judge, the association had maintained relationships with members of the Alvaro gangs of Sinopoli (Reggio Calabria). Central element of the Carmine Ferrara group resident in Giffoni Valle Piana who would have acted as an intermediary between foreign drug traffickers and organizations operating on the national territory. During the investigations it was established that the port of Salerno has become a national hub for the importation of drugs from South America. The investigation reached a turning point when last year Dia men found 22 quintals of cocaine hidden in a container coming from Ecuador and boarded on a motor vessel flying the Lebanese flag. The operations would have been coordinated by Francesco Volpe and his old acquaintance Cataldo Esposito, known as 'o ragiunier, resident in the Picentini area and would have seen the interest of the Calabrian family of Alvaro, Nicola and Francesco, financiers of the importation and buyers of cocaine, represented in the Salerno area, for the intermediation operations with Carmine Ferrara and his collaborator Salvatore Rocco, by the Calabrian Fortunato Marafioti and by the Neapolitan from Barra Errico D'Ambrosio, the latter having the role of delegate of the Alvaro family and the "Neapolitan" co-financiers. Then there was the Vesuvian agricultural sector with the ton of marijuana seized from an export company in Poggiomarino from which it was to be distributed to Scafati and Boscoreale. In this context, the figure of Antonio Malafronte di Boscoreale emerges, co-owner of the company interested in importing the cargo as well as the Italian-American Michele Annunziata. The latter would have organized the importation of the drugs, financed in part by the Neapolitan Giuseppe Gargiulo and would therefore have appointed, for financial compensation, Franco Volpe and one of the unavailable for the coordination of the material operations for recovering the narcotic. Francesco Volpe, domiciled in Ogliastro Cilento, would have had the task of identifying the objectives and providing logistical support to a group of runners, coming from Puglia, who, directed by Michele Campaniele, would have carried out the thefts. IN PRISON Carmine Ferrara, 60 years old from Pomigliano d'Arco and resident in Giffoni Sei Casali; Alfonso Masullo, 57 years old from Cava de' Tirreni; Franco Volpe, 52 years old resident of Sessa Cilento; Giuseppe Carraturo,67 years old from Pontecagnano Faiano; Cataldo Esposito, 74 years old from Nocera Inferiore and resident in Pontecagnano Faiano; Salvatore Rocco, 55 years old from San Sebastiano al Vesuvio; Fortunato Marafioti, 43 years old from Cosoleto; Francesco Alvaro, 26 years old from Sinopoli; Nicola Alvaro, 41 years old from Sinopoli; Errico D'Ambrosio, 39 years old from Cercola; Michele Annunziata, 79 years old from San Giuseppe Vesuviano but resident in Canada. UNDER HOUSE Antonio Malafronte, 39 years old from Scafati and resident in Boscoreale; Michele Campanile, 58 years old from Ruvo di Puglia; Giuseppe Gargiulo, 70 years of Letters. RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT Antonio Ansaldi, 48 years old from Ogliastro Cilento
