Cocaine and heroin, gang of traffickers dismantled in Oristano

The drug ring set up in the Terralbese area, branching out to Oristano and Medio Campidano, aimed high: cocaine and heroin, easy money with increasingly consistent and well-organized trafficking. The gang's plans were disrupted by the Oristano mobile squad and by an investigation by the prosecutor's office that could reserve further developments.

The investigation, which began over a year ago, involves nine people. The prosecutor Andrea Chelo, who is coordinating the investigation, has requested precautionary custody in prison for six of them. They are Alex Medda, a 29-year-old from Oristano and resident in Terralba, Francesca Gelsomino (27) from Marrubiu, Sandro Pia (50) from Arcidano, Aldo Soro (29) from Arcidano, Mauro Arisci (32) from Villasor and Antonello Puggioni (54) from Guspini. In recent days, assisted by lawyers Enrico Meloni, Fabio Costa, Gianfranco Siuni and Pasqualino Moi, the six suspects appeared before the preliminary investigations judge Federica Fulgheri for questioning. The decision of the investigating judge on the magistrate's requests is expected in the next few hours.

It all started at the end of 2023, then in February of a year ago the arrest of Diego Trudu, 45 years old from Marrubiu, caught on the 131 with a kilo and a half of cocaine. A huge quantity, about four thousand doses of the drug that could have been resold at retail, could have brought in over one hundred thousand euros. So much drugs, the men of the Mobile anti-drug section, led by the manager Samuele Cabizzosu, went ahead: behind that transport there could be a much larger ring. And so the investigations widened, the drugs would have arrived from Cagliari also on the vans of a moving company from Arcidano.

According to investigators, on three occasions Alex Medda, Francesca Gelsomino, Aldo Soro, Mauro Arisci and Antonello Puggioni would have shuttled from the Sardinian capital to Terralbese with loads of cocaine (about a kilo at a time) and heroin (a turnover of over 10 thousand euros in doses). A well-organized system, with a relay car that acted as a trailblazer ensuring that the road was free of any checkpoints. Once they reached their destination, the drugs would have been placed on the retail market but the gang's plans were blocked by the Police.