About 135 police officers from four Kanpur police stations cordoned the Kanjarpurwa neighbourhood in Kidwai Nagar at dawn on 1 November 2026 and searched it with drone surveillance. They arrested Sagar, Arman and a woman named Anjali and recovered about 11 kg of ganja, police said.
Arrested 3Cannabis 11 kg
Police in Bahadurgarh arrested a man named Rahul, alias Boxer, in the Asauda police station area and recovered 140 g of ganja from him. A case was registered at Asauda police station under the NDPS Act.
Arrested 1Cannabis 140 g
Police in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, seized 172 quintals (17,200 kg) of cannabis in the past month during Operation Prahar, a drone-assisted campaign against illegal cultivation. The district's additional superintendent of police said 25 drug cases were registered, 14 to 15 people were arrested, and the haul was worth 45 to 50 crore rupees.
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Macau's Judiciary Police arrested a 35-year-old Hong Kong electrician in the central district and seized six THC e-cigarettes worth about MOP8,000, plus four used devices at his home. Police said he brought them from Hong Kong and sold to at least three people at MOP1,400 each; he was referred to prosecutors over three drug offences.
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Police arrested 29 people in a morning sweep of Kampung Bahari, a drug-dealing area beside the railway in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, on 1 November 2026. Officers seized cannabis, hundreds of grams of methamphetamine, thousands of ecstasy pills and a tablet press; an earlier police count was 26.
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The Ertzaintza arrested seven people, six men and one woman aged 36 to 56, in raids across Bizkaia and seized about 3 kg of hashish, 2.5 kg of cocaine and €225,000 in cash, the Basque security department said. All seven were later released, a decision El Correo reported caused discontent in the Ertzaintza, which had wanted at least the alleged ringleader remanded.
Arrested 7Cannabis 3 kg
Akole police raided a field in Washere shivar, Ahilyanagar district, where cannabis plants were being grown behind a dodka crop, and seized plants and green leaves valued at Rs 15.36 lakh. Tenant farmer Vijay Raghunath Gaje was arrested, a case was registered against him, and a court sent him to four days' police custody.
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Michael Wilson, 45, of Orford, Warrington, was given an eight-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months at Warrington Magistrates' Court for possessing cannabis with intent to supply on 17 December 2024. The court fined him £160 and ordered a £187 victim surcharge, and it ordered the cannabis, snap bags and scales seized by police to be destroyed.
Charged 1Prison 8 months suspended for 12 monthsFine GBP 160
Immigration police and narcotics officials raided a cannabis storage and packing warehouse in Sam Wa Tawan Tok, Bangkok, on 31 October 2026, arresting 14 foreign nationals. Two Vietnamese suspects faced drug and immigration charges, while 12 other Vietnamese and Myanmar nationals were charged under immigration and work laws.
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Police at the Third Police Station in Posadas found 143 grams of cannabis hidden in a 500-gram packet of yerba mate that a young man had brought for detainees. The case went to federal prosecutors under Argentina's national drug law, and no arrest was reported.
Cannabis 143 g
San Luis Potosí's Guardia Civil Estatal detained 23 people over 24 hours of operations for various alleged offences and seized 644.3 grams of marijuana, along with 46 doses of a substance similar to crystal and 15 tyre spikes. The force did not say how many of the detentions concerned the marijuana, and no charges or court outcome were reported.
Arrested 23Cannabis 644.3 g
Aleppo anti-narcotics officers said several operations dismantled drug networks and led to arrests among their members. The authorities listed 9.571 kg of hashish and 21 g of marijuana among the seizures, alongside pills and a handgun.
Cannabis 9.592 kg
Arvi police arrested Sheikh Guddu Sheikh Ashik, 43, after stopping his moped in front of the ST depot on the Arvi–Wardha road on 31 October 2026 and finding 4.91 kg of ganja in a school bag. Police valued the cannabis at Rs 98,200 and the total seized property at Rs 228,720, and registered a case against him under the NDPS Act.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 4.91 kg
Libya's General Department for Combating Drugs and Psychotropic Substances said its Benghazi branch arrested a Libyan man, born 1963, on 31 October 2026 and found about 16 kg of hashish with him. The branch said detectives ambushed him as he trafficked hashish in the city and that the Public Prosecution was notified.
Arrested 1Cannabis 16 kg
Bolivia's anti-narcotics force found 840 packages of marijuana, packed in 30 jute sacks, near the Ollagüe volcano in Potosí department, and detained one person. The force said field tests confirmed marijuana and sent the case to prosecutors.
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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
Carabineros' OS7 section in El Loa province, Antofagasta region, detained 29 people during October 2026 and seized 2,200 kg of illegal drugs. The haul was mainly marijuana, along with coca paste, cocaine hydrochloride and ketamine, and the unit valued the whole load at more than 4,500 million pesos.
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Alinagar police and the SOG stopped a car near Babatpur in Varanasi district on 31 October 2026 and found 60 kg of ganja in 60 packets under the stepney. Three men from Sultanpur and Basti districts were arrested, and police estimated the value at about 20 lakh rupees.
Arrested 3Cannabis 60 kg
Customs officers at Chennai International Airport arrested a 28-year-old Indian woman on 31 October 2026 after she arrived from Kuala Lumpur with 4.877 kg of high-grade hydroponic cannabis hidden in food packets in her luggage. The haul was valued at ₹1.71 crore and seized under the NDPS Act; officers are investigating whether she was linked to a trafficking gang and who was to receive it.
Arrested 1Cannabis 4.877 kg
Chennai Customs officers arrested a man arriving from Bangkok after finding 10 sealed packets holding 1.478 kg of high-grade hydroponic cannabis in his suitcase at Chennai airport. News Today valued the haul at ₹51.7 lakh, while Dinakaran put it at ₹1.5 crore and reported that an international gang had recruited him with a free trip to Thailand.
Arrested 1Cannabis 1.478 kg
Dhanarua police arrested Omprakash Yadav, also known as Bhagwan, about 40 years old, at Pabhedi village on Saturday 31 October 2026 on suspicion of selling ganja. Officers recovered 64 packets holding a total of 130 grams of the drug from his roadside kiosk, and the station house officer said police were investigating where he obtained it and whether others were involved.
Arrested 1Cannabis 130 g
Shikarpur police in Narkatiaganj seized 10.4 kg of ganja from an abandoned tempo after its occupants fled, and have named Dhaneelal Yadav of Pirari village as the main accused. An NDPS Act case has been registered and officers are raiding to arrest him.
Cannabis 10.4 kg
Civil Lines police in Moradabad arrested Maujjam, a suspect in a 26 October earring snatching, near a football ground on 31 October 2026 and recovered 1.112 kg of charas, a stolen motorcycle, jewellery and ₹1,600. Police said he already faced theft, robbery and NDPS cases and sent him to jail after adding section 317(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita to an existing case.
Arrested 1Cannabis 1.112 kg
Egypt's Interior Ministry said on 31 October 2026 that security services arrested a man in 10th of Ramadan, Sharqia Governorate, for running a social-media page that advertised drugs for sale. Officers found a quantity of hashish, a private car and a mobile phone, and the man confessed to holding the drugs for trafficking, the ministry said.
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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.
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A 90-person team from BNN and North Sumatra police destroyed about five hectares of cannabis on Tor Sihite in Mandailing Natal on 31 October 2026 after a tip and a seven-hour hike. Officers uprooted and burned the crop at two nearby sites; no growers were arrested.
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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.
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Hassanabdal police arrested five suspected drug dealers and recovered 6.84 kilograms of hashish in Attock district on 31 October 2026. Police said the operation was part of an intensified crackdown ordered by Attock District Police Officer Ali bin Tariq.
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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.
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Ramnagar police in Maihar district arrested 60-year-old Kailash Bais, also called Krishnapal, in a forest beside Jhinna Road on 31 October 2026 and seized 1.3 kg of ganja from his motorcycle. A case was registered under the NDPS Act and a court sent him to jail; police valued the ganja at 13,000 rupees and the motorcycle at about 80,000.
Arrested 1Cannabis 1.3 kg
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