The "Piazza Castelli" operation by the state police coordinated by the DDA was launched at dawn in Cagliari which led to the arrest of three people including two alleged leaders of as many criminal associations dedicated to drug trafficking who supplied the Sardinian capital of cocaine, hashish and marijuana . There are a total of 28 suspects. Dozens of searches are underway throughout the city.
Marco Pisano, 41 , is believed to be the leader of the gang that operated in San Michele: he ended up in prison. On the other hand , Samuel Gatti, 34, and Fabrizio Manca, 38 , are under house arrest, according to investigators at the top of the criminal group that operated in Is Mirrionis.
During the entire investigation that began in 2019, 17 people ended up in handcuffs, 10 kilos of drugs and over 50 thousand euros were seized .
The two organizations had transformed two buildings and a pizzeria into drug supermarkets.
And during the lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in order not to interrupt drug dealing and avoid contagion, a mobile camper was used.
The Mobile Squad of the Cagliari Police Headquarters, Widespread Crime Section, dismantled the two alleged criminal organizations that operated in the Is Mirrionis and San Michele districts and managed the retail outlet in the city.
150 agents of the Cagliari State Police, the Abbasanta Sardinia Crime Prevention Department, the Abbasanta Dog Nucleus and an aircraft from the Abbasanta Flight Department are involved in today's operation.
The groups of alleged traffickers were based in some public housing buildings in via Castelli, made up of 16 suspects, and San Michele, made up of 6 suspects. The drug, based on the quality, was called kinder, carrera, goldon, messi or nike.
THE ORGANIZATION CHART
The Police managed to reconstruct the organization chart of the Is Mirrionis group starting from the methods of drug dealing that took place following standard techniques: use of lookouts placed at the entrance of the condominiums with the task of filtering customers and observing the surroundings; use of pushers in the condominium entrance hall where the sale of the doses took place; recruitment of custodians in charge of hiding the bulk of the drug and of people who had to divide it and package it in vacuum-packed doses.
The two alleged leaders of this association, arrested today and placed under house arrest, would also have organized and coordinated all the illegal activities and found the huge quantities of drugs on the market to be sold. Furthermore, they would take care of making the defenders available to their subordinates in the event of "legal problems", especially after arrests in the act, and of paying the pushers for their daily work.
THE SALE OF DRUGS
The sales of the doses began in the afternoon, punctually at 1 pm, and went on continuously until 11.30 pm. On a "work" day, no less than 250 people, especially young people, entered the halls to buy doses. The price of each was 5 euros for hashish and marijuana and 30 euros for cocaine.
The pushers were paid 120 euros a day and were not allowed to leave their post, not even to have dinner. Breaks were not allowed and the organization, therefore, took care of having the pizza delivered.
The two alleged leaders of the via Castelli group would have maintained absolute control of their associates and activities by remaining constantly on the square, also to solve any problems that could arise: for example, quarrels during drug sales or with pushers, which would have slowed down the pace of sales.
On some days there were so many customers that the two alleged bosses intercepted were worried about the "assault that had taken place" and about the drugs that had all run out and that had to be procured again in large quantities. In addition to assigning the tasks, the two would also have punished the drug dealers who stole the doses to resell them on their own or took possession of part of the proceeds with the "dismissal". Similar "punishments" came if the lookouts were distracted or if, during the "service", they consumed drugs. These behaviors could have put the entire activity at risk, especially when police patrols passed through for normal checks.
THE SUPPLIES
The organization in via Castelli would have supplied itself with a part of the drug by resorting to the criminal association of the San Michele district, which would have been headed by the other person who ended up in prison today on the order of the investigating magistrate
This association was based in the home of the arrested person and in a street in the San Michele district. The street was conventionally referred to as "cantiere" or "caddozzo".
Here was the central office for the wholesale sale, while in a neighborhood pizzeria, also owned by the arrested person, the retail sale of the doses was carried out. The doses were also delivered by the organization's pushers to homes, by car and scooter or on foot inside big bags. Even the arrested would have been involved in selling the doses retail, as well as negotiating for the sale of large wholesale quantities and occasionally dealing with the "cutting" of cocaine.
The packets of drugs were hidden in a car wash, gym and sauna owned by the family of the arrested person. The alleged head of the San Michele group would have organized all the activities of the supply chain: from the procurement of cocaine, hashish and marijuana, to cutting and packaging, from wholesale and retail sales to recruitment and delivery to pushers.
THE DRUG CAMPER
The drug dealing activity had not stopped even during the lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, after the entry into force of the "I stay at home" decree, in March 2020, the shop had moved from the pizzeria, closed precisely because of the decree, to a camper, which the man had bought so as not to interrupt the sale and to preserve his family from possible infections by the virus.
(Unioneonline/ss)
