Overview

• Drone surveillance guided Colombian national police intelligence and special forces to his hideout in an upscale Cali neighborhood where he was arrested.
• Italian prosecutors in Reggio Calabria issued an arrest warrant in June as part of a DDA investigation into the Platì ’ndrangheta’s cocaine trafficking network.
• His arrest was connected to a broader operation by the Squadra Mobile and Italy’s Central Operational Service that executed over 20 precautionary measures against suspected drug traffickers.
• He faces charges of association to international drug trafficking and two attempted imports of large cocaine shipments from South America.
• Starnone had previously been sentenced to five and a half years for drug offenses and served as a liaison between the Calabrian mafia and South American cartels.