Cops bust international drug ring

(updates previous) (ANSA) - Naples, April 18 - Naples police on Friday busted an international drug-trafficking ring that allegedly brought some 1,500 kg of cocaine to Italy from Spain and the Netherlands.
    Police arrested 15 people on suspicion of supplying dealers in Naples and nearby Torre Annunziata, seizing 110 kg of cocaine in the process. The traffickers allegedly brought the illegal merchandise in on long-distance lorries, hidden under fruit and flowers.
    Among those nabbed are Vincenzo Scarpa, alias The Doctor, who has already done time for drug trafficking, the owner of a long-distance trucking firm, and Francesco Tamarisco, who heads a clan by the same name operating in the Torre Annunziata area.
    The latter is a career criminal well-known to law enforcement.
    In 1997, he was arrested along with 16 others, including a janitor and a teacher, for luring children aged 6-9 years old from a Torre Annunziata school, drugging them, and filming them while being sexually assaulted in a garage and several apartments near the school. The tapes were then sold to pedophiles, Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.