When was the last time you ate pizza? What’s your favorite? Do you want any “special” ingredients? These may be common questions for every pasta lover, but a business with these characteristics can also serve to disguise another, much more lucrative business. How is cocaine sold? The impunity that comes with thinking that this Italian family member who runs a business is actually dedicated to the sale of drugs and other narcotic substances and that the whole thing is nothing more than a cover is taken advantage of.
This Wednesday, Elche Police Station reported the arrest of a father and son, members of a “family clan of Italian origin”. Dedicated to the sale of narcotic substances from the family business located in a pizzeria in the Elche district of Torrellano.” The National Police Service assures: ““The buyers came to the pizzeria and, after making contact with both suspects, gave them money in exchange for the drugs.”
money and drugs
Agents intervened in the police operation that led to the capture of both In addition to 55 grams of cocaine, 400 grams of marijuana, precision scales and 40 thousand euros in cash, a vehicle listed as stolen in France was also seized.
Italian family clan
Agents began investigating after becoming aware of the incident. From a family clan of Italian origin settled in the Elche region of Torrellano It is dedicated to the distribution of narcotic substances, primarily cocaine and marijuana, using the restaurant business they operate for this purpose. In order to verify the information received regarding the existence of this illegal business, Researchers performed various procedures with this they confirmed that the business in question run by two menIt’s about father and son.
Following various surveillance devices, the agents confirmed with both the father and the father that the distribution and sale of narcotic substances were carried out from within the pizzeria while the catering activity was carried out. those responsible for distributing the cocaine dose, such as his son or marijuana to buyers who come there. Police investigations not only confirmed that an obviously illegal business was being carried out in the pizzeria selling drugs, but also that “members of this family clan were also dedicated to the distribution of cocaine and marijuana for all Torrellano and Elche region“says the Elche Police Station.
““It turned out that the white substance seized in the pizzeria’s kitchen was cocaine, not table flour.”
After his arrest, agents conducted three searches, including two inside. addresses located in the towns of Torrellano and Santa Pola, where agents seized approximately 40,000 euros in cash. During the third search of the pizzeria, agents in the kitchen several vials of white matter This gave the appearance of flour for cooking, but then coca test came back positive for cocaine.
The investigation was conducted by agents from Organized Crime Group I of the Judicial Police Brigade of the Alicante Provincial Police Station. The detainees, aged 24 and 51, were sent to the courthouse. Court of Inquiry on duty in the town of Elche.
Exploiting a business to conceal illegal activities constitutes a legal aggravating circumstance
“The distribution and sale of drugs by using a business contributes to legal benefits as it facilitates the consumer’s access to the drug and enables the seller to benefit from the establishment conditions. encouraging medication switching“What is being investigated in this case is under the guise of people coming to place an order or pick up a pizza under a legal guise,” the Police Station explains in the same memo.
In the case where the restaurant where drug smuggling took place was examined disguised as a hotel business, suitable job for him money launderingThis appeared legitimate as an important component of drug trafficking, as the ideal of a constant cash flow was to conceal the source of illicitly obtained benefits.
This is the second major cocaine-related matter resolved by the National Police Service in the past month and a half; in the previous case, a laboratory in El Altet was dismantled.