The Nicosia district court remanded a 22-year-old man in custody for eight days on 30 October 2026 after police seized about 6.4kg of cannabis, including 2.56kg found in a parcel from abroad. The parcel had been declared as Lego toys and was addressed to a recipient in Engomi; a taxi driver who collected it was arrested and later released when no evidence was found against him.
Arrested 2Cannabis 6.4 kg
A patrol watching a car park by rue Chopin in Besançon on 27 October 2026 arrested two men and seized 5 g of cannabis resin and 2 g of herbal cannabis, plus 516 g of resin at one home, along with heroin and cocaine. The 28-year-old, who admitted keeping a stash for a week, was jailed for five months; the 18-year-old was referred to the prosecutor.
Arrested 2Charged 1Cannabis 0.5 kgPrison 5 months
The Special Judge-II court acquitted Baldev Kumar and Suman Das in the Gutkar charas case, finding contradictions between police and independent witness accounts. Police had said they found 1.111 kg of charas in the driver's seat cover of the car they were travelling in at Gutkar on the night of 25 February 2023.
Arrested 2Charged 2Cannabis 1.1 kg
Nedumbassery police arrested Ragesh, 32, in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, after he spent two years on the run as a tourist guide. He is accused of financing a June 2024 car seizure at Athani that included 420 grams of cannabis, along with MDMA.
Arrested 1Cannabis 0.4 kg
Kerala Excise Department officers arrested a 31-year-old Hapur man known as Pintu in Kozhikode after finding 872 grams of ganja-laced toffees hidden in a secret box under his scooter seat. Hapur police, who have not received his full address from Kerala, are checking his record and whether associates are running a trafficking network in the district.
Arrested 1Cannabis 0.9 kg
A 33-year-old Khust resident was sentenced to five years in prison for growing cannabis at home and possessing the drug. Officers seized about 240 plants from his greenhouse and yard, along with dried cannabis, scales and packaging.
Arrested 1Charged 1Prison 5 years
Mumbra police arrested 18-year-old Sahil Siraj Shaikh after an anti-narcotics patrol found 1.384 kg of ganja, valued at ₹28,229, on him at Harani Vasti in Thane. A case was registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, and police described the arrest as part of a wider anti-drug drive in the Mumbra area.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 1.4 kg
Shkodër police seized more than 56.7 kg of cannabis in ten sacks from woods and a campsite in Koman. Four men were arrested and a fifth, the brother of one of them, was left under investigation at liberty.
Arrested 4Cannabis 56.7 kg
Police in Faridabad's Dabua police station area arrested Dharmbir, a Rajasthan resident, on suspicion of selling charas and recovered 110.80 grams of the resin from him. He was booked under the NDPS Act and had been living in a rented house in the city.
Arrested 1Cannabis 0.1 kg
Shikarpur police seized 10.4 kg of ganja hidden under a tempo seat near Kundilpur in Narkatiaganj after the occupants fled into a sugarcane field. An NDPS Act case was registered against unknown smugglers; no one had been arrested.
Cannabis 10.4 kg
Paikmal police arrested three people and said a fourth accused was absconding after seizing 25 kilograms of ganja from a Chhattisgarh-registered car during checks on the Biju Expressway in Bargarh district. Officers also seized the car and three mobile phones and began an investigation.
Arrested 3Cannabis 25 kg
Police in Gaya district, Bihar, stopped a car at the Bahera police station gate on the Dobhi–Chatra road early on 30 October 2026 and found 16.06 kg of ganja in 44 packets hidden inside its door panels. The driver, Dhananjay Sharma, and co-driver Vinod Kumar were arrested and sent to judicial custody; police say the load was being taken from Jharsuguda, Odisha, to Sasaram.
Arrested 2Cannabis 16.1 kg
A 62-year-old American was arrested at NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay City on 29 October 2026 after arriving from Bangkok with about 17.46 kg of kush in two checked bags. PDEA valued the haul at P17.46 million and said the passenger, identified only as “Henry,” faces charges under the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act.
Arrested 1Cannabis 17.5 kg
Police in Aktobe detained a 33-year-old man in a dacha settlement and found a bag of plant material on him, then seized more marijuana from a barn at his home. Experts put the total at more than 1.7 kilograms, and a medical examination found him intoxicated with drugs at the time.
Arrested 1Cannabis 1.7 kg
The Amritsar Commissionerate Police destroyed narcotics seized in 138 NDPS Act cases, incinerating them at Khanna Paper Mill on 29 October 2026. The haul included 50.012 kg of charas, 2.17 kg of ganja and 198 g of bhang, about 52.38 kg of cannabis, along with 18.499 kg of heroin and thousands of pills and capsules.
Cannabis 52.4 kg
Police in Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir, arrested eight people in separate operations on 29 October 2026 and registered eight cases under the NDPS Act. The amounts police listed total about 343 grams of charas in seven cases and 20.6 grams of heroin in the eighth.
Arrested 8Cannabis 0.3 kg
Police in Tinghir province stopped a car on the outskirts of Boumalne Dadès on 29 October 2026 and found 28 kilograms of chira, the cannabis resin known as hashish, hidden in its bodywork. Four people, two of them women, were arrested and remanded to Ouarzazate prison, and investigators suspect one woman's husband directed the network from his cell.
Arrested 4Charged 4Cannabis 28 kg
A security guard accused of supplying ganja to University of Hyderabad students was arrested on 29 October 2026, and the Telangana EAGLE Force seized 150 grams packed in 24 sachets. Across two linked inquiries, the force says 24 university students have been identified as alleged cannabis consumers, and it wants meetings with their parents about counselling and de-addiction.
Arrested 1Cannabis 0.2 kg
PDEA Region 6 found about 1.5 kg of suspected marijuana and 25 cannabis-oil vape cartridges in a Kalibo courier warehouse, then arrested a recipient known as alias Kanggeng when a controlled delivery succeeded on 29 October 2026.
Arrested 1Cannabis 1.5 kg
Police arrested Prevel Islam, 28, at a parcel service office in Rajshahi on the night of 29 October 2026 as he came to collect a cannabis consignment. The Special Response Battalion-5 said it seized 28 kg of cannabis and two mobile phones; a case was filed and he was handed to Boalia police with the drugs.
Arrested 1Cannabis 28 kg
Florida Highway Patrol troopers booked Jeremiah Baxter, 29, into the Palm Beach County Jail after he allegedly failed to stop on Interstate 95 near Boynton Beach with his 3-year-old daughter in the truck. An inventory search found 2.7 grams of marijuana; he faces misdemeanor possession and resisting charges.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 0 kg
Nine men admitted trafficking hashish, marijuana and cocaine through two transport firms subcontracted by the parcel company Correos Express and were sentenced in Lleida to a combined 30 years and €4.05 million in fines. The case began when Catalan police stopped a van near the N-260 in La Seu d'Urgell on 8 November 2021 with 277.64 kg of hashish and 29.16 kg of marijuana bound for Lyon.
Charged 9Cannabis 401 kgPrison more than 30 years (combined)Fine EUR 4,050,000
Sector-126 police in Noida arrested 26-year-old Siddharth Sharma on 29 October 2026 near Garhi Kat on Pushta Road, Sector 128, and seized 2 kg 150 g of ganja from him. Police said he brought the drug from Delhi and sold it in small packets; Amar Ujala put the haul at about 2.25 kg.
Arrested 1Cannabis 2.2 kg
Police discovered a 1,500-plant marijuana farm at Vesivuru, Lea, and a 100-plant farm at Nawi, Tukavesi, arresting the suspected owner, a 38-year-old man, as nationwide operations continued on 29 October 2026.
Arrested 1Plants destroyed 1,600
On 29 October 2026 Paraguay's SENAD reported eradicating four hectares of cannabis — about 12 tonnes — and destroying 1,600 kg of drying marijuana at the Indigenous colony Takua Ju in Yby Pytã, Canindeyú. No one was found at the site.
Arrested 0Hectares 4Cannabis 13,600 kg
After a four-month inquiry, Shkodër police stopped a Volkswagen Passat in Guraj, Malësi e Madhe, and seized 265.4 kg of cannabis from the car and two homes. Four men were arrested and three relatives were declared wanted.
Arrested 4Cannabis 265.4 kg
Bengaluru police arrested six people, including two from other states, in separate operations on 29 October 2026 for selling drugs to the public and college students. Officers seized 9.89 kg of ganja and 16 g of MDMA worth Rs 6.52 lakh; all six were remanded to judicial custody.
Arrested 6Cannabis 9.9 kg
South Lampung's district prosecutor's office destroyed 1.24 kg of cannabis on 29 October 2026, part of a haul that also included 38.3 kg of methamphetamine, 56 ecstasy pills and 1,349 etomidate vape cartridges. Prosecutors said the evidence came from cases with final court rulings, and the South Lampung police chief attended the destruction.
Cannabis 1.2 kg
Moemen Al-Seddeik, 37, was given a three-year prison sentence suspended for three years at Lewes Crown Court on 29 October 2026 over a 49-plant cannabis farm in the loft of his Southwick home. Police who raided the house in September 2023 also seized cocaine, £9,805 in cash and found the electricity meter bypassed to hide £2,715 of power use.
Plants destroyed 49Prison 3 years, suspended for 3 years
Mexico City police and federal agents raided a property on Callejón Moctezuma in Santiago Acahualtepec, Iztapalapa, and arrested three men aged 20, 22 and 57. Officers seized 178 bags and wrappings of suspected marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine plus a mobile phone, and handed the men to prosecutors, who will decide their legal status.
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