Five members of an eleven-strong smuggling gang were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court for trying to bring 460 kg of cannabis from Thailand to Birmingham via Paris. The drugs, valued at £13.8 million, were found vacuum-packed in 22 suitcases in August 2024 after Apple AirTags linked the couriers to one account.
Cannabis 460 kg
Spanish police arrested a 44-year-old German resident of Mallorca over a 3,289 kg shipment of Canadian marijuana seized at Valencia port in March, Spain's largest such haul. Charged with trafficking and gang membership, he was freed without bail but barred from leaving the island.
Arrested 1Charged 2Cannabis 3,289 kg
Police spent over seventeen hours destroying seven cannabis cultivations, camps and drying sheds on savannahs at Wiruni and Sandhills, valued at over GY$165 million. No one was arrested; investigations continue.
Plants destroyed 310,500Hectares 11.3Cannabis 199.6 kg
Police arrested a suspected peddler with 800 rolls of bhang in Juja and a man with 287 rolls in Embu on 21 October, both held for arraignment. The National Police Service says the operations target drug distribution networks.
Arrested 2
Immigration police raided a rented three-storey house in Bang Khen after neighbours complained about the smell and found more than five tonnes of cannabis flowers. Five foreign nationals sorting the flowers were detained; the licence the operation relied on had been issued for another province.
Arrested 5Cannabis 5,000 kg
Joel Williams, 23, was found with multiple gunshot wounds at the CANNASVG farm in Georgetown after police answered an intrusion call at around 12:10 am. A second intruder escaped; police say they do not know who shot him and no arrests have been made.
Deaths 1
Acting on intelligence, Ondo NDLEA raided a cannabis farm in the Okemoro Isinbode camp forest on 17 October, destroying 7,500 kg of skunk on three hectares and arresting five named suspects. Officers also kept 1,281 kg of exhibits, including seeds and fresh stems.
Arrested 5Hectares 3Cannabis 7,500 kg
Narcotics, border and state police with forest staff destroyed cannabis across about 592 acres (240 hectares) of high forest in Kullu's Parvati Valley over two months. Plants were cut down on the spot at 2,100 to 3,050 metres, with photos and GPS locations recorded.
Hectares 239.6
S. Mohan, 38, and Ahmad Shamil Abdul Rashid, 28, were sentenced to 30 years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane for trafficking 139 kg of cannabis from a Bangsar car park in 2022. The judge found the case proven beyond reasonable doubt; the prosecution had sought the heavy term over the quantity.
Charged 2Cannabis 139 kgPrison 30 years
ICA image analysts flagged anomalies in a container's scan on 24 September and found 1,290 cannabis blocks hidden in boxes of gloves. The agencies say the 391 kg load was transiting through Singapore; no origin or destination was disclosed and investigations continue.
Cannabis 391 kg
Police searched 15 properties across the Australian Capital Territory and seized 1,586 cannabis plants, about 70 kg of dried cannabis, cash and six vehicles. Nine people were charged with criminal-group and drug offences in what police called their largest ever operation against grow houses.
Arrested 9Cannabis 70 kg
In twelve days, Paraguay's anti-drug agency and Brazil's Federal Police destroyed 222 hectares of cannabis and 44 growers' camps, much of it inside nature reserves such as Mbaracayú and Morombí.
Hectares 222Cannabis 5,250 kg
Nigeria's drug agency destroyed 1.85 hectares of cannabis in the Igbanke forest and arrested eleven people, nine of them young men at one spot in Benin City. An opposition politician called the burning of farms a waste: "You cannot burn your way out of poverty."
Arrested 11Hectares 1.9
In the 2025–26 growing season, police in six districts of Odisha destroyed cannabis on 36,508 acres (about 14,775 hectares) in 1,631 mapped plots. The state now tells revenue officials to watch the same land as the next season starts.
Hectares 14,775
Two cousins grew cannabis under LEDs and climate gear in two rented Yongin homes from last October to July, selling marijuana, jelly and liquid online for up to 1 million won a time. Police acting on a resident's tip arrested them on 6 August, seizing 35 plants, 2.3 kg and cryptocurrency.
Arrested 2Cannabis 2.3 kg
Drug agents and police spent two days uprooting and burning 48,000 cannabis plants on 6,000 square metres of a communal forest in Tinglayan, in the mountains of northern Luzon. No one was arrested.
Arrested 0Plants destroyed 48,000Hectares 0.6
Between April and June 2026, California's cannabis task force destroyed or seized 63,204 pounds of cannabis and 89,257 plants in ten counties, and arrested 24 people.
Arrested 24Plants destroyed 89,257Cannabis 28,669 kg
French and Spanish police arrested 10 suspects and searched 24 premises in a Eurojust-coordinated action week, breaking a ring that moved about 1.4 tonnes of cannabis from Barcelona to Rennes by post since 2024. Cash, drugs, guns and cars were seized; the network's assets are put at €4 million.
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Gendarmes stopped a vehicle coming off the ferry at Sète on 24 May and found 2,692 kg of cannabis resin, then arrested the network's suspected logistics chief near Paris. The Lille-led inquiry, run with Moroccan intelligence, says part of the load was bound for Lille.
Arrested 2Cannabis 2,692 kg
Omar bin Yacob Bamadhaj, 46, was executed for importing 1,009 grams of cannabis. The court found he had only carried the drugs, but Singapore's law left the judge no sentence other than death.
Cannabis 1 kgDeaths 1
Acting on army intelligence, Hambegamuwa police and soldiers raided a three-acre cannabis field inside the Udawalawe reserve on 11 April and seized about 155,000 plants worth Rs 4.5 million. The reports name no arrests.
Hectares 1.2
Acting on a tip-off, a large team led by Mpumalanga's acting police commissioner removed a dense field of mature dagga plants on Buffelspruit Farm near Malelane, valued at about R2.9 million. No arrests were made; police opened an investigation to find the cultivators.
Indonesia's national narcotics agency led 151 officers into six fields near the village of Teupin Rusep and destroyed about 97,000 plants, some 69 tonnes by wet weight, on 6.5 hectares.
Plants destroyed 97,000Hectares 6.5Cannabis 69,000 kg
Bella May Culley, 19 and pregnant, faced life in prison for bringing 12 kg of marijuana and 2 kg of hashish into Tbilisi. Under a plea deal she was sentenced to the time she had already served and fined 500,000 lari.
Charged 1Cannabis 14 kgPrison 5 months 24 days (time served)Fine GEL 500,000
Over ten days, Paraguay's anti-drug agency and Brazil's Federal Police destroyed 309 hectares of cannabis, 96 growers' camps and more than 39 tonnes of the drug in the forests of Canindeyú, Caaguazú and Alto Paraná. Senad says the phase kept at least 966 tonnes of cannabis out of the Brazilian market, where it estimates the crop would have earned USD 144 million.
Hectares 309Cannabis 39,000 kg
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