Poaching: Naples had at home an illegal arsenal of stolen guns and artisanal weapons as well as game shot in the now closed hunting season and also belonging to protected species.
The Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Ischia carried out a check at the home of a 34-year-old worker in the area, known to be a victim, carrying out a search in the context in search of weapons and explosive materials; the Prefect had prohibited the man from possessing any type of weapon or explosive material. The man, however, had not accepted the prefectural ban and had decided to continue the poaching activity with other "means".
In fact, during the search inside the character's home, the Carabinieri found a 20-gauge shotgun with abraded serial number that the man had hidden in a cavity created inside a table, about 1300 hunting cartridges. of various calibers, about half a kilo of gunpowder for hunting ammunition, three barrels for 12-gauge shotgun and a handcrafted device, built with tubes, bolts and pistol-shaped springs, capable of chambering and firing cartridges generally used for this type of weapon.
The men of the weapon also found in the availability of the character two pyrotechnic mortar charges weighing about one and a half kilograms each, eighty steel marbles per slingshot, three illegal electronic calls for birds with relative CD supports with recorded the singing of various species of birds and finally 14 birds, illegally killed when the hunting season is closed, also belonging to protected species.
Once the on-site investigations were completed, the Carabinieri arrested the criminal who was then taken to the Poggioreale prison; all weapons, ammunition and material found were seized.
25 March 2014