Carabinieri of the Cetraro Marina station arrested a 30-year-old local man on 4 November 2026 on suspicion of possessing drugs for sale.[1] The man was already subject to special police supervision with an obligation to reside in the area.[1] Officers from the Paola Carabinieri company carried out a search of the man’s own home as part of their drug-enforcement checks on the Cosenza Tyrrhenian coast.[1]
When the officers entered, he threw several packets out of a window to get rid of the drugs, and the Carabinieri recovered them and blocked him.[1] The search turned up 86 grams of marijuana and 2 grams of hashish, alongside 28 grams of cocaine, a precision scale and material for packing individual doses.[1] Calabria Inchieste and CosenzaChannel report the same seizure as 116 grams in total, made up of 86 grams of marijuana, 28 grams of cocaine and 2 grams of hashish.[2] Calabria Inchieste reported that the officers also recovered the packets thrown outside the flat, preventing the drug from being dispersed.[2]
The man was first taken to his own home and later tried on the fast-track direct procedure before the court.[1] At the validation hearing the judge ordered that he be held in pre-trial detention in prison.[1] CosenzaChannel reported that the man appeared before the court of Paola on the fast-track procedure.[3] Radio Azzurra said the operation by the Paola Carabinieri company was aimed at drug dealing on the Cosenza Tyrrhenian coast.[4]
