The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a cafe worker to three years of aggravated imprisonment and a 10,000-pound fine for possessing hashish for trafficking in the Al-Nozha police district. Police had arrested him after a tip-off and found a bag of hashish, cash and two mobile phones, which he said he used to reach customers.
Arrested 1Charged 1Prison 3 yearsFine EGP 10,000
Police in Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh, arrested 58-year-old farmer Mohan Sisodiya on 31 October 2026 after finding 88 cannabis plants growing among cotton on his field at Pokhar village. Officers uprooted and seized the plants, which weighed 102.25 kg and which police valued at about 10 lakh rupees, and booked him under the NDPS Act.
Arrested 1Charged 1Plants destroyed 88Cannabis 102.25 kg
Odisha's anti-narcotics task force arrested five men and seized about 97 kg of cannabis, valued at Rs 49 lakh, from two cars near PN College in Khurda on 31 October 2026. Police described the Solapur man among them as the alleged kingpin of a network moving cannabis from Kandhamal district to Maharashtra.
Arrested 5Cannabis 97 kg
Excise police in Hyderabad arrested three friends at Gaganpahad in Rajendranagar on 31 October 2026 and seized seven kilograms of ganja, a car and mobile phones. Officials said one of the men, an HR professional from Bengaluru, financed the trip to the Araku region, where they bought the ganja at Rs 5,000 a kilogram to sell at Rs 50,000 a kilogram.
Arrested 3Cannabis 7 kg
STF officers arrested 32-year-old Rakesh Kumar of Mandka village at a midnight checkpoint in Tissa, Chamba, and recovered 9.028 kilograms of charas. Police registered an NDPS case at the STF North Range Kangra station.
Arrested 1Cannabis 9.028 kg
Sector-49 police in Noida arrested Kamal Kishore Kannaujia, a Hardoi resident living on rent in Hoshiarpur village, after a patrol found 760 grams of ganja on him near the sewage plant in Sector 50. Police said he brought the drug from Delhi and made it into small packets for sale.
Arrested 1Cannabis 760 g
Police in Yıldırım, Bursa, found 114 cannabis plants, 1.99 kg of packaged cannabis and 924 g of cannabis left to dry in the basement of a butcher's shop converted into a grow room. A suspect identified only as A.T. was detained and a court ordered him held in pre-trial detention.
Arrested 1Plants destroyed 114Cannabis 2.914 kg
Police in Kharkiv Oblast have notified a 60-year-old man that he is suspected of illegally growing cannabis after officers seized more than 30 plants from his household plot in September 2026. Investigators say he found the plants growing wild on his land and watered and fertilised them through the summer.
Charged 1Plants destroyed 30
Police in Pyatigorsk detained a 22-year-old local man who threw away a bag holding more than 87 grams of marijuana as he tried to flee drug officers. A search of his kitchen found more marijuana, scales and packaging, and he told police he had sold the drug through hidden stash points across the Caucasian Mineral Waters area for about a month.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 87 g
Abu Dhabi's federal appeal court upheld a three-month use sentence and a trafficking acquittal for a man caught collecting hashish in Al Nahda, Sharjah. His co-defendant was sentenced in absentia to life over 1,091.1 grams of cannabis-linked drugs.
Arrested 2Charged 2Cannabis 1.0911 kgPrison life
Security forces in Sohag arrested a 30-year-old unemployed man at his home in Rawafi al-Qasir, finding five slabs of hashish, 139 rolls of shabu weighing about a kilogram, a locally made gun and cash. Prosecutors authorised the raid, and the man was detained and referred to them.
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Police in North Macedonia detained 13 people aged 18 to 46 in drug operations in Skopje, Prilep, Demir Kapija, Bogovinje and Štip on 30 and 31 October 2026, seizing marijuana, white powder and tablets. The Interior Ministry said charges would follow once the cases were documented; no weights were given.
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Jabalpur police and a team from Uttar Pradesh's narcotics wing stopped a container near the Mohtra toll plaza in Gosalpur early on 31 October 2026 and found 871.095 kg of ganja in 28 sacks hidden among 412 paint cans. Two men were arrested; police valued the consignment at ₹4.35 crore and said it was being taken from Odisha to Maihar.
Arrested 2Cannabis 871.095 kg
Police arrested Gh. Mohd Bhat and Manzoor Ahmad Bhat of Wewan at a checkpoint in Pethkoot, Bandipora, on 31 October 2026. Officers seized about 1.03 kg of charas and registered an NDPS case; no court outcome is reported.
Arrested 2Cannabis 1.03 kg
Police in Antalya's Kepez district detained two men after finding 7 kg 500 g of cannabis in 15 packets at their homes. A court ordered M.S.K. held in pre-trial detention and released O.Ü. under judicial control.
Arrested 2Cannabis 7.5 kg
Two 25-year-old men were killed in a shootout with police in Mit Hamal village, Bilbeis, Sharqia, on 31 October 2026 after officers came to arrest them on drug and weapons charges. Police said the men opened fire first and that officers then seized about 3.5 kg of cannabis — 20 hashish slabs and 2 kg of hydro — along with two guns, ammunition, cash and a scale.
Cannabis 3.5 kgDeaths 2
Vizianagaram district police detained Sigili Venkatesh, 29, a repeat ganja smuggler from Rangappavalasa, under Andhra Pradesh's PD Act and moved him to Visakhapatnam Central Jail on 31 October 2026. Police said two ganja cases were registered against him, with 16.570 kg seized in total, and that he would be held without bail for up to a year.
Arrested 1Cannabis 16.57 kg
Volgograd police detained a 38-year-old local man with a previous conviction after a personal search found three packets of hashish, a cannabis resin, and methylephedrone. Investigators opened a large-amount possession case under part 2 of article 228, which carries up to 10 years in prison; the man said he bought the drugs online for personal use.
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Ruben Flutey, 34, was sentenced to 10 years and five months in prison at the Wellington District Court after being convicted on 18 charges, including supplying methamphetamine, cannabis, ecstasy and ketamine. Police seized nearly $200,000 of assets including drugs, cash, a classic car, motorbikes and jet skis, and four more associates were due to be sentenced in November and December.
Arrested 1Charged 1Prison 10 years and five months
Yemariam Teshome, 21, of Ontario, pleaded not guilty in Bermuda's Supreme Court to conspiring to import more than $1 million of cannabis into the island between an unknown date and 21 June 2026, and to possessing it with intent to supply. A judge set a mention for 11 December and a fixed trial date of 15 February.
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Police in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district stopped a truck on the evening of 30 October 2026 and found 1,204 kg of ganja hidden under sacks of coconuts. Two men from Madhya Pradesh were arrested and booked under the NDPS Act; police valued the consignment at about ₹6 crore.
Arrested 2Charged 2Cannabis 1.204 t
Police and the Special Operations Team raided LG Farmhouse in Kammeta, Chevella, on 30 October 2026 and caught 108 ICFAI and IBS students drinking without permission. Four tested positive for cannabis, and officers seized 15 grams of ganja, vehicles and phones.
Arrested 108Cannabis 15 g
Special Response Battalion 9 recovered 11 kilograms of cannabis from an abandoned school bag beside a pond in Ashera, Habiganj Sadar, on 30 October 2026. No one was detained, and the cannabis was handed to Habiganj Sadar Model Police Station.
Cannabis 11 kg
Police in Chattogram Range arrested 115 people on drug charges in a 24-hour operation across the region's 11 districts on 30 October 2026 and seized 51.64 kg of ganja. Thirty-five people were jailed by mobile courts, 33 drug cases were filed and 7,610 taka collected in fines.
Arrested 115Cannabis 51.64 kgFine BDT 7,610
Puducherry police registered a case against a 17-year-old boy after finding a cannabis plant in a flower pot at his home near Thirukkanur, and seized a second cannabis plant growing wild on an empty plot. The boy faces a case over the potted plant, while the second plant is under investigation.
Charged 1Plants destroyed 2
Federal Highway Police arrested a 19-year-old on Friday 30 October 2026 after finding 24.4 kg of skunk on a bus at kilometre 646 of BR-230 in Altamira, Pará. He told officers he was paid 5,000 reais to carry the drug toward Marabá.
Arrested 1Cannabis 24.4 kg
Rajendragram police found 211 kg 99 g of ganja, estimated by police to be worth 21.19 lakh rupees, in an abandoned car near Anchalpur in Madhya Pradesh's Anuppur district on the night of 29–30 October 2026. The driver ran into the forest and escaped; police registered a case against an unknown accused and were looking for him and the car's owner.
Cannabis 211.099 kg
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
Customs officers at Silvio Pettirossi airport found 6 kg of suspected marijuana hidden in two packs of paediatric wet wipes in a courier shipment from Miami on 30 October 2026. A second check turned up 46.5 kg of suspected ketamine in printer boxes, taking the total to 52.5 kg of suspected drugs; SENAD took over both cases.
Cannabis 6 kg
Dehat police in Haider village, Ashoknagar district, Madhya Pradesh, arrested 60-year-old Devi Singh Yadav after finding 28 cannabis plants growing in his courtyard and beside two unfinished rooms. Officers uprooted the plants, which weighed 9 kg 50 g, and registered a case against him under the NDPS Act.
Arrested 1Plants destroyed 28Cannabis 9.05 kg
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