Activities ranged from drug trafficking, extortion and the control of nearly all commercial businesses in the Gioia Tauro plain.

Jointly with the Pesce clan and in collaboration with the Piromalli-Molè 'ndrina they controlled the public contracts for the construction of the container terminal in the port of Gioia Tauro.

[3] Bellocco’s criminal career goes back to 1974 when he was arrested for extortion and theft.

[1] He was arrested in the company of his wife on July 16, 2007, in an underground bunker concealed below a manger in a farmhouse near Rosarno.

Special police units, supported by three helicopters, surrounded the farmhouse knowing that Bellocco was inside.