Eight detained as Carabinieri hit hashish and cocaine dealing in Lombardy woods
Carabinieri arrested eight people at dawn on 6 November in a blitz against hashish and cocaine dealing run from the woods of the provinces of Milan, Como and Varese, ordered by Milan's anti-mafia directorate. Six were found in a flat in Limido Comasco, searched with the GIS special unit, and weapons including a Kalashnikov, drugs, ammunition and cash were seized.
🇮🇹 Limido Comasco, Como province, Lombardy · Italy
Carabinieriarrested eight people at dawn on Friday in a blitz against drug
dealing in the woods of the provinces of Milan, Como and Varese.[1]Six of
them were found in a flat in Limido Comasco, where the special intervention
group GIS blew open four doors with small explosive charges and flash-bang
devices.[1]The other two were detained in Sesto Calende, Varese province, and
in Corsico, outside Milan.[2]
Searches of two wooded areas at Pogliano Milanese and Arluno turned up an AK47
Kalashnikov rifle similar to the one fired in Parabiago, other weapons including
pistols, ammunition, cash, phones and quantities of hashish and cocaine.[3][4]The operation was ordered by Milan’s district anti-mafia directorate (DDA) in an
investigation into hashish and cocaine trafficking that police say produced
shootings, attempted murders and kidnappings between rival dealer groups of
mainly Moroccan origin.[5][4]
Some of those detained are accused of the armed raid on the night of 15 October
at Villapia di Parabiago, where, according to the arrest decree signed by
anti-mafia prosecutor Paolo Storari, a group of ten men, at least four of them
armed with Kalashnikov-AK47 rifles, fired 19 rounds of 7.62 calibre at a rival
faction to take over the dealing ground known as “Ristorante il Pioppeto”.[3]Private surveillance cameras in the Parabiago woods were decisive in identifying
the assault group.[3]Other footage showed the group’s methods running without
interruption between 31 October and 4 November 2026, including a suspect at
Pogliano Milanese opening a car boot to let out an armed man.[6]According to
the same account, the group ran the woods dealing ground in shifts, collecting
hashish and Kalashnikovs from a hiding place at Pogliano Milanese and changing
into camouflage clothing before heading to the spot it controlled.[2]The
investigation, coordinated by prosecutor Storari, is at its opening stage and
must establish whether the group also includes those who killed 41-year-old Ait
Omar Adil, whose body was found in the Rugareto woods in the night of 29 to 30
August.[2]
The Carabinieri released footage of the operation showing patrols filmed from
above, the GIS raid on the Limido Comasco flat and the weapons, ammunition and
drugs seized in the woods.[7]
Photos and video
The Kalashnikov assault rifle seized in the Lombardy woods operation. Photo: CarabinieriPhoto details
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Arrested
8
Agency
Carabinieri del comando provinciale di Milano
Agency type
Gendarmerie
Cannabis
Hashish; Other cannabis product
Activity
Sale
Setting
Forest or wild land, Home
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Lombardy
Sources
QuiComoquicomo.itITBlitz all'alba contro lo spaccio nei boschi: sei fermati nel Comasco, i carabinieri fanno irruzione con gli esplosivi
La Prealpinaprealpina.itITSparano ai pusher rivali, in manette otto marocchini: alcuni fermati a Sesto Calende
Il Giornale d'Italiailgiornaleditalia.itITLombardia, maxi blitz antidroga nei boschi di Milano, Como e Varese: sequestrati un kalashnikov, pistole, hashish e cocaina
Zazoom Social Newszazoom.itITLombardia maxi blitz antidroga nei boschi di Milano Como e Varese | sequestrati un kalashnikov pistole hashish e cocaina
ANSAansa.itITCarabinieri trovano droga e armi nei boschi in Lombardia, anche un kalashnikov
Il Giornoilgiorno.itITBlitz contro lo spaccio nei boschi: sequestrate le armi per la guerra fra pusher (compreso un kalashnikov)
QuiComoquicomo.itITIl blitz dei carabinieri nel Comasco visto dall'alto: l'irruzione con gli esplosivi e le armi sequestrate (video)
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No weight or street value was published for the hashish, or for the cocaine seized, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
The cocaine and hashish are described together only as large or unspecified quantities, so no combined total is given.
Some accounts say only that the seized weapons were found in the Milanese woods, while others name the searched areas as Pogliano Milanese and Arluno; no specific hiding place is established.
Only some of the eight detained are reported as accused over the 15 October Parabiago shooting, and the charges against the rest are not detailed.
No decision on pre-trial detention, charges filed or court outcome was reported; the group was due to be questioned by the investigating judge.
The submitted Il Giornale d'Italia page carries an operation video but no direct video address could be recovered from it; the QuiComo video page is listed instead.
A first news alert reported the operation as still under way, and the final count of people detained is eight.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in La Prealpina: La Prealpina reported that the eight detained are Moroccan nationals aged between 22 and 45, and that they are due to be questioned by the investigating judge in the following days.
The Zazoom page gives no weight for the hashish or cocaine and no number of people arrested, so no quantity or arrest figure can be added from it.
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.
Carabinieri of Bra on 13 October 2026 announced operation Oro verde: eight Albanian nationals arrested, five others reported, and more than 340 kg of cannabis seized from indoor greenhouses in four Piedmont towns, plus 200 g of hashish, with a retail value they put at about €500,000.
