Catania police arrest 22 and seize 33 kg of cannabis in Alto Impatto sweep
Catania's Mobile Squad arrested 22 people, including two minors, and seized about 43 kg of drugs across several city districts in its Alto Impatto operation. The cannabis share was about 20 kg of hashish and 13 kg of marijuana; about 10 kg of cocaine and small amounts of crack, ecstasy and wax made up the rest.
🇮🇹 Catania, San Cristoforo, San Giorgio, Barriera, Picanello and San Giovanni Galermo districts · Italy
Catania’s Mobile Squad, in the Servizio Centrale Operativo-coordinated “Alto impatto” drive
against street dealing and youth deviance, stepped up checks at young people’s gathering places
and searched homes and people on the street across the San Cristoforo, San Giorgio, Barriera,
Picanello and San Giovanni Galermo districts.[1]Officers also struck several indoor and
outdoor dealing spots in lightning actions that netted a string of pushers.[1]
In total 22 people, two of them minors, were arrested for dealing or possession with intent to
deal; the report stresses they are presumed innocent until a final conviction.[1]Police seized
about 10 kilograms of cocaine, 20 of hashish, 13 of marijuana and about 150 grams of crack,
ecstasy and wax between them.[1]A further minor was arrested for repeatedly breaching a
robbery-related supervision order by leaving his community, and an adult and a minor found on a
stolen scooter were reported for receiving stolen goods.[1]
Case data
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State police from the Vigevano station raided an industrial shed at Gambolò on the morning of 26 October 2026, seizing about 53 kg of dried cannabis and arresting three Milan men aged 43, 46 and 53. The shed held LED grow gear; the men were caught loading boxed cannabis into two cars.
State Police searched two farms in the Nuoro area and seized about three tonnes of marijuana and 10,000 drying plants. Three workers were found locked in a shed; five men were reported, one of them also for labour exploitation.
On 20 October 2026 Carabinieri from Asti, searching a wooded shed at Coassolo Torinese during 13 warrants in an Albanian-network inquiry, found 1,206 flowering cannabis plants they valued at over €1 million on the illicit market. They arrested an Albanian caretaker living in Asti and seized the shed and grow kit, which drew 80–100 kWh a day through an illegal grid tap.
