Hashish, marijuana and Cosa Nostra Blitz in Borgo Vecchio, 18 arrests
PALERMO - "Love, a lot of chocolate is there yet at home?", Asked her husband to his wife. In reality they were not just spouses, but key figures in the organization of dealers with a base of operations in the Borgo Vecchio district, in Palermo. He is the head of the pusher network, she the "accountant" who kept a record of the "goods" in the warehouse and of the "stocks".
There are 23 pre-trial detention orders issued by the investigating judge and executed by the police officers of the “Palermo Centro†police station , coordinated by the mobile team . Eighteen people ended up in prison or under house arrest. The investigation is from the District Anti-Mafia Directorate. Hundreds of drug dealing episodes monitored by investigators in the heart of the popular district a few steps away from the nightclubs of the Via Libertà area.
Business was booming . The organization was structured on three levels: collectors with hashish and marijuana wholesalers, packers and pusher suppliers, pushers.
At the top of the hierarchy there were two married couples, who answered for their work to the mafia family. The rules were clear and strict, and whoever was wrong was punished.
There are three alarm situations that come out of the operation called "Push away" : the mass of drug users, the ease with which we buy supplies on the street, the involvement of minors for the transport of drugs (they were the children of couples who ran the organization).
