Mantua Mobile Squad officers arrested a 33-year-old man of South American origin on the evening of 10 November 2026 on suspicion of holding drugs for dealing.[1] Officers stopped him on the street during targeted anti-dealing checks, and he appeared nervous and voluntarily handed over a packet containing about 100 grams of hashish.[1] After the formalities, police took him to Mantua’s Casa Circondariale prison on the judicial authority’s order.[1]

Extending the search to his home and outbuildings, officers found almost 6 kilograms of hashish and 33.8 grams of cocaine hidden inside, along with material for weighing and packaging individual doses for sale.[1] Mantovauno’s account of the same operation confirms the home search yielded almost six kilograms of hashish and 33.8 grams of cocaine plus packaging material, all placed under seizure.[2]

At the validation hearing the judge confirmed the arrest and ordered the precautionary measures of compulsory residence in the municipality of Mantua with daily reporting to the judicial police.[1] Both accounts attribute the operation to the Mantua Mobile Squad acting against drug trafficking and property crime in the city.[2]