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
Police in Bareilly detained a father and son after raiding a roadside kiosk outside the Hardaspur police outpost on 29 October 2026, seizing about 100 g of charas and some illegal liquor. Both were produced in court the next day and sent to jail after a case was registered against them under the NDPS Act and the Excise Act.
Arrested 2Cannabis 0.1 kg
Anantnag Police arrested five men in four anti-drug operations at Srigufwara, Mattan, Malakhnag and Sangam, recovering 1.570 kg of charas powder, seven grams of charas, 30.4 grams of brown sugar and 13 grams of heroin. Police registered cases under the NDPS Act and said investigations were continuing.
Arrested 5Cannabis 1.6 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
The Khust District Court sentenced a 33-year-old Khust resident to five years for growing cannabis in a greenhouse and in pots in his yard. Searches found about 240 plants, plus dried cannabis, scales and packaging. He stays in custody until the verdict takes effect.
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
Saudi Arabia's General Directorate of Narcotics Control arrested eight citizens in two operations: six in Qassim accused of promoting hashish and amphetamine, and two in Hail accused of possessing and promoting 2.5 kg of hashish and tablets subject to medical-sale controls. All were detained and referred to the Public Prosecution; no names or court dates were reported.
Arrested 8Cannabis 2.5 kg
Acting on a tip-off, Shirpur police raided forest land in Ambapada shivar, Dhule district, and seized about 610 kg of cannabis crop that they valued at ₹1.52 crore. No cultivator has been identified; a case was registered against unidentified people at Shirpur police station and a search is under way.
Cannabis 610 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
Michael Perry, 42, of Trim, Co. Meath, was jailed for three years and nine months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 30 October 2026 for possessing cannabis worth €300,000 for sale or supply at the Hales Freight warehouse in Dublin 15. A Customs and Excise dog found the drug in his locker there on 1 February 2022, in five 1kg bags and another 10 bags.
Charged 1Cannabis 5 kgPrison 3 years 9 months
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
Police in Dudhara, Sant Kabir Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, arrested two brothers on 30 October 2026 and seized 22.3 kg of ganja from a fish-farm shed near the Bharwalia Babu canal bridge. Avnish Singh alias Tony and Avinash Singh alias Tinku were booked under the NDPS Act and sent to court.
Arrested 2Charged 2Cannabis 22.3 kg
Dhoolpet excise police arrested Suresh Singh, alias Tinku Singh, and Pramod More and seized 6.2 kg of ganja that the pair allegedly brought from Odisha to sell in Hyderabad. Officers also took Rs 10,000 in cash, three mobile phones and an electric scooter, valuing the seizure at about Rs 3.5 lakh.
Arrested 2Cannabis 6.2 kg
Police in Indur, in Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri district, arrested 19-year-old Devaraj after he allegedly killed his mother, Chinnapappa, at their home on the night of 29 October 2026. Several Tamil outlets reported that he was high on cannabis; Thanthi TV said he had been freed on bail shortly before, and Dinamalar said he was drunk.
Arrested 1Deaths 1
Sûreté du Québec officers searching a home on rue Renaud in Dolbeau-Mistassini on 29 October 2026 seized cocaine, more than 100 methamphetamine tablets, more than 100 grams each of illicit and edible cannabis, magic mushrooms and nearly C$3,000 cash. The 52-year-old woman who lived there was arrested, questioned and released; police said trafficking charges could follow.
Arrested 1Cannabis 0.2 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
Béziers court gave an 18-year-old man 15 months in prison and a 21-year-old woman six months suspended on 29 October 2026, after police stopped them near the prison with a drone and a package holding 97.25 g of cannabis and 29.10 g of cocaine. The man, previously convicted over a similar drone drop, was jailed at once; the woman was banned from the prison area for three years.
Arrested 2Charged 2Cannabis 0.1 kgPrison 15 months firm; six months suspended
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
Mauritian police have arrested 14 people, including a National Coast Guard officer, over about 1.5 tonnes of cannabis and hashish landed from the Thai yacht Dreamer; Le Défi reported a second coast guard arrest, bringing the total to 15. Eight Thai crew appeared in Port-Louis court on 29 October and were held until 5 November on provisional drug-importation charges.
Arrested 15Charged 14Cannabis 1,500 kg
Kuwait's Interior Ministry said its General Department for Drug Control arrested five suspects in four separate cases involving trafficking in and use of narcotics and psychotropic substances. The only cannabis listed was 5 grams of hashish, seized with 4,000 Lyrica capsules, 4 kilograms of Lyrica powder, 170 grams of shabu (methamphetamine), 'chemical'-soaked papers and a gram of cocaine.
Arrested 5Cannabis 0 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
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