They didn’t even respect the proximity to a church, especially that of Fratteto deal cocaine, hashish e marijuana. The drug sales network he allegedly headed Carmine Memoli it was very dense and consolidated, with several points where transfers took place, between Salerno and the Irno Valley. There are numerous statements about the head and organizer of the association aimed at drug dealing arrested on Friday morning together with 13 other people, including the father Tiziano Memoli, in the operation of the DDA and the Carabinieri. The area of the hilly district of Salerno was a point of reference for the sale of drugs of various kinds, even during the lockdown period.
The drug dealing squares
From the statements of some cocaine users, from 2020 onwards they would be supplied by Carmine Memoli in the Fratte area, but not only. The customers, from Salerno but who also came from the Avellino area and the Irno Valley, took the drugs in the parking areas (including underground ones) of the shopping centers in Fratte and in other municipalities in the Irno Valley, at the exit of Baronissi (also in this case near a church) Penta di Fisciano ea Cologna di Pellezzano. There was no shortage of areas in the center of Salerno, especially near the public transport stop in Piazza XXIV Maggio or Piazza Malta, whatever you prefer, or in Torrione. And all this always even in the months when the Covid emergency was raging.
The shop near home
From the interrogations of the various users, many of those arrested repeatedly speak of selling cocaine but also hashish and marijuana. In some cases, to prevent them from reaching the space near the church of Fratte, those coming from the municipalities of the Irno Valley and the Avellino area could agree to purchase the doses brought to the various municipalities of residence, as a courtesy to the pushers. The drug dealing was of the type “Salerno” o “discreet”fast, with quick passages practically without attracting attention and creating particular alarm, unlike what happens in many other cities.
Purchases and sales
The various narcotic substances were also purchased in Lazio as in Spain and even transferred via ordinary courier from abroad to Italy, as if it were a common package. In turn the gang sent to Basilicata, in particular to Lavello in the province of Power and in Puglia especially in the area of Taranto the drugs to be dealt are always through an ordinary courier of those who deliver ordinary goods to your home.
The role of Ferrara
The cocaine import business required large buying groups and markets ready to sell the coca to South America. The loads transported to Salerno with the intermediation of Carmine Ferrara they would then be recovered by the Memoli family, in particular the role of father Tiziano emerging, and by their employees who had an uncommon ability to move within the seaport. In an intercept, very significant words emerge, indicating people present in Salerno who have come from outside: «These are the Calabrians… ». The hundreds of kilos of cocaine were evidently purchased on behalf of the ‘Ndrangheta or Neapolitan clans and from which the people of Salerno then took the “fee”, that is, they retained a portion as compensation. It is no coincidence, therefore, that the Salerno gang could handle large quantities of “coca”. To give an idea of the traffic, Carmine Memoli while he was in the car in March 2022, was intercepted by the police of the major Antonio Corvino, he would have shown a friend a one kilo block of cocaine, with the writing “Mondo” as if it were (and often is) the brand of those who produce the drug in South America. Subsequently, in via Conforti, a young man turned to Memoli jr asking him for a “nice shot”, while a song by a well-known national trapper was playing in the car. He confided to the friend to whom he had shown the block of drugs that the singer was one of his clients: «And you see, when he comes to play here – presumably indicating Campania, ed. –,he comes to me to spend. Who should they take the money to?.., La cocaine…five/six grams at a time….. ».
Proceeds reinvested
The trade in narcotics was very profitable and in fact the Salerno DDA was directed by the chief prosecutor Giuseppe Borrelli, who oversaw all the investigations, believes that three apartments in Baronissi and one the Memobet center in Piazza Gian Camillo Gloriosi in Salerno are owned by the Memoli father and son, registered to frontmen.
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