September 2025
10 reports. Seizures 4 · Raids 2 · Sentences 2 · Eradications 1 · Prosecutions 1
Macau seizes more than 30 kg of cannabis at the airport
Police found 56 vacuum-sealed packets of cannabis buds, more than 30 kg, in the luggage of two Malaysian men who had flown in from South Korea. A Hong Kong man travelling with them was also arrested.
Lebanon's army kills a clan member in a Bekaa drug raid
A drone strike attributed to the Lebanese Army in Dar al-Wassaa near Yammouneh killed Hassan Abbas Jaafar, a member of the Jaafar clan wanted for drug trafficking, killings and attacks on soldiers; two other clan members were wounded. The army did not mention the strike, saying soldiers returned fire during raids and killed a wanted man.
Police destroy more than 10 tonnes of cannabis in Auckland grow-house raids
Police announced on 25 September 2025 that a month-long operation in Auckland had shut 120 cannabis grow houses, destroyed more than 11,000 plants and seized more than 10 tonnes of cannabis. Thirty people were arrested, most Vietnamese nationals facing deportation, and police put the black-market value at more than NZ$50 million.
Taiwan rounds up 245 people in a nationwide cannabis sweep
On 23 and 24 September 2025 prosecutors, police and military police searched 330 places in 20 jurisdictions and arrested 245 people for growing, using or possessing cannabis. They seized 1.68 kg of cannabis, 83 cannabis products, 97 vape pods and 581 pieces of paraphernalia. The High Prosecutors' Office said the operation was meant to uncover hidden users and reject calls for legalisation.
Kabul court jails seventeen for cannabis, tablets and alcohol
Kabul's primary court for narcotics and intoxicants sentenced seventeen people to seven months to three and a half years in prison and 15 to 35 lashes for selling and trafficking narcotic tablets, alcohol and cannabis. The Supreme Court approved the sentences, which were carried out on 23 September 2025.
Police break up a 1,337-plant cannabis farm in Kakheti
Prosecutors charged five people after police found 1,337 cannabis plants, weighing more than 143 kilograms, in the village of Vakiri in Sighnaghi municipality. Searches of homes linked to the suspects also turned up 3.3 kilograms of dried marijuana already packaged, drying equipment and digital scales.
Dubai appeal court clears Filipina over cannabis extract
Dubai's Court of Appeal acquitted a 35-year-old Filipina who had been sentenced to 10 years and a AED 100,000 fine for bringing 20 grams of cannabis extract into the country. Customs found the extract in 20 vape cartridges hidden in pancake-mix packages at Terminal 3 on 15 December 2024.
Egypt's police raid a desert drug farm in Ismailia
The Interior Ministry announced the seizure of 27.5 tonnes of narcotics at a desert farm in Ismailia: 21 tonnes of fully grown plants and 6.5 tonnes in hidden storage, valued at about 1.6 billion Egyptian pounds. One suspect was found with 90 kg of hashish and 10 kg of hydro, and firearms were seized.
Oman's airports seize marijuana from a run of arriving passengers
Customs officers at Salalah airport found 11.65 kilograms of marijuana in the baggage of two Indian travellers on 23 July 2025, then 6.5 kilograms in another Indian traveller's luggage five days later. At Muscat airport, officers reported 12.66 kilograms from a Chinese woman on 21 August and, on 13 September, 9 kilograms from one traveller and 8 kilograms hidden in food bags from another.
A prison inmate runs a 145 kg hashish ring
Police broke up a hashish network holding 145 kilograms of resin and arrested a female suspect, then searched the cell of a non-Kuwaiti inmate who ran the gang from Central Prison. Another accomplice was at large outside Kuwait. The case showed that prison-based dealers can direct smuggling networks beyond the walls.