They paid for cocaine with a credit card at a store POS, seven arrests

An anti-drug operation by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Potenza, coordinated by the DDA of Potenza, is underway this morning between Val d'Agri, in Basilicata, and Campania.

This involves the execution of a precautionary order which concerns seven people (four in prison and three under house arrest with an electronic bracelet) accused of trafficking and dealing drugs.

The purchase of cocaine also took place through payment by credit card at the POS of a business managed by one of the suspects.

The investigating judge ordered preventive interrogation for an eighth person: in total there are 13 suspects.

The ordinances, requested by the DDA of Potenza, were carried out by the Carabinieri of the provincial command of the Lucanian capital in Val d'Agri and in the metropolitan area of Naples, where the supply of the narcotic substance took place.

The investigations - as disclosed in a statement signed by the District Attorney, Camillo Falvo - began in October 2024, following a search that led to the seizure of a kilo of cocaine.

In total, approximately one thousand episodes of the sale or illicit possession of drugs were reconstructed.