Penitentiary police at the Casa Circondariale di Siracusa, the provincial prison known as Cavadonna, arrested a man and a woman in flagrante on the evening of 4 November 2026 after they were found beside the prison with a drone and hashish.[1] Officers also reported a third person at liberty, the only member of the group not taken into custody.[2] The 4 November date comes from an account that states it outright; the other reports say only that the arrests happened the previous evening and were published on 5 November.[1]

The officers were on duty at the institute when its video-surveillance system picked out a suspicious car in the streets right beside the prison.[1] Officers led by the prison’s unit commander, with deputy commissioners and inspectors, intervened on their own initiative and stopped the car before the load could be flown over the walls.[1] A search of the car found about 1.4 kilograms of hashish, a cannabis resin product, and a drone ready for take-off, and both were seized.[1] The outlet that named the date gives the time of the intervention as shortly after 9.20 pm.[3]

The prison officers’ union Osapp, which made the operation public, tied it to a recent case at the same prison in which another two people were arrested over 2 kg of drugs.[1] Osapp’s provincial secretary, Giuseppe Argentino, said repeated seizures suggested the Siracusa prison risked being treated as a drug market.[1] The union asked the Justice Ministry to install electronic anti-drone shielding at the prison.[4] No charges, custody decision or court step was reported for the three people involved.[5]