Carabinieri from the Mazzarrone station arrested a 21-year-old man of Tunisian origin described as previously convicted on suspicion of possessing drugs for dealing.[1][2] The operation followed several calls from residents to the Caltagirone operations room reporting a highly confused youth staggering along Via Botteghelle in Mazzarrone.[1][2] Officers stopped and searched the young man and found a precision scale soiled with hashish hidden in his underwear.[1] A follow-up search of his bedroom found a block of hashish weighing almost 80 grams inside a sports bag.[3][2]

The Carabinieri said the drug together with the packaging material pointed to dealing.[1] The man was arrested in flagrante, and the judicial authority later validated the arrest and ordered an obbligo di firma, a requirement to report regularly to police for signing.[1][2] The Carabinieri presented the intervention as part of continued territorial checks in the Calatino area against the circulation of narcotic substances.[1]