The ‘Ndrangheta, was arrested in the fugitive Antonino Fish – The Messenger

The police officers of the operational Department of the provincial Command of Reggio Calabria and those of the carabinieri Company, together with the Squadron hunters Calabria, have arrested the fugitive Antonino Fish, 34-year-old, believed to be the regent of the homonymous clan, he hid in an apartment in Gioia Tauro. The arrest took place in execution of an order for custody issued by the gip of Reggio Calabria at the request of the Dda, for mafia association and international traffic in narcotics. The fish was a fugitive from July 2016.

In July 2016 Fish was taken by a measure of firm issued by the Dda in the context of the operation Volcano was conducted by the Guardia di finanza. The man was found in a house in the area of marina di Gioia Tauro. Thanks to the activity technique and knowledge of the area, the police have blocked it in an apartment where, apparently, he had gone to meet with the partner and the children.

Fish, in the moment of the irruption of the military, attempted to dispose of a gun by throwing it from the window of the house. The weapon, immediately recovered by the police, turned out to be a semi-automatic pistol in very good condition and in perfect efficiency, complete with charger and its ammunition, the object of a theft committed at Civitanova Marche (Macerata) in 2015. The man, then, has the opposite resistance. Antonino Fish, and also to the arrest of other members of the family, is considered by investigators as the regent of the homonymous clan and the one who took care of the supply of financial resources, in particular managing the import of cocaine from south America and taking care of the exfiltration of the drugs imported by the other and stored in containers unloaded in the port of Gioia Tauro.

the Fish was administering the financial resources and distributed at the top of the clan prisoners and their families. In addition, the Fish took care of the relationships with other gangs, in particular that of the Bellocco and Meil. In general, according to investigators, was performing the functions of organizer and promoter of the clan. In the course of the operation was also arrested for aiding and abetting the staff, Tony Belcastro, a 53-year-old, already known to the police, the owner of the house, in which was surprised the fugitive and present at the time of the coming of the police.