Palermo mobile-squad officers arrested two cousins from Palermo, Salvatore Salamone, 50, and Giuseppe Salamone, 35.[1] The two are accused of jointly possessing drugs for dealing and possessing an illegal firearm.[2] On the deputy prosecutor’s order, the 50-year-old was first returned to house arrest while the 35-year-old was taken to prison.[2] After the validation hearing, the investigating judge ordered prison custody at Pagliarelli for both cousins.[3]

In a warehouse in Via Tavola Tonda, officers seized five more blocks of hashish weighing 500 grams in total.[2] In the same store they found two more doses of hashish, a revolver with a partly erased serial number, six loaded cartridges and 65 more of the same calibre.[2] On the 35-year-old, officers had found the just-received key, 13 doses of cocaine weighing 6.5 grams and 10 doses of hashish.[2]

Falchi mobile-squad officers on patrol in La Cala saw two men talking suspiciously in an alley and put them under observation.[2] The 50-year-old, who was under house arrest, leaned from his home window and threw a key into the street to his cousin, who picked it up and went to the Via Tavola Tonda warehouse and back within minutes.[2] The older cousin had been sentenced in March 2024 to seven years, with his brother Gioacchino, for supplying drugs to chef Mario Di Ferro, who in turn allegedly passed drugs to friends including former Ars president Gianfranco Miccichè.[2] All the illicit material was seized, and ballistic checks are now under way to establish where the weapon came from and whether it was used in recent crimes.[3]