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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shane Hendry, 30, received 122 days, treated as already served, plus a year of probation, for cannabis possession for distribution and resisting police after a Dieppe traffic stop. Officers reported two small bags of cannabis and $311,000 in cash; a warrant remains for the driver, Kyle Winston Rouse.
Arrested 1Charged 1Prison 122 days
A Banning jury convicted Merlin Perales Ortiz, 24, of first-degree murder and conspiracy on 29 October 2026 for the 2020 robbery-killing of 20-year-old marijuana dealer Wesley Flores Miranda in Riverside. Ortiz, held without bail, is due to be sentenced on 18 November and is expected to receive life without parole; her two co-defendants pleaded guilty in 2021.
Charged 1Deaths 1
Tripura Police intercepted a vehicle at the Jherjheri check post in Kadamtala on the night of 28 October 2026 and recovered 17 packets of dry cannabis from a concealed compartment, valued at about Rs 50 lakh. The driver, Kishan Ghosh (29) of Agartala, was arrested under the NDPS Act.
Arrested 1
Police arrested two suspected traffickers and seized over 25 kg of cannabis sativa in coordinated operations on 28 October 2026: about 20 kg found in vehicle KDV 137V stopped at KK Towers in Juja Town, whose driver was taken into custody, and bhang in two green sacks and a blue basin plus rolling papers and a rolling stick at a rental house at Kamukuywa Market, Kimilili, after a public tip-off.
Arrested 2Cannabis 25 kg
On 28 October 2026 Amambay anti-drug police burned two hectares of cannabis at harvest on Estancia Pica Pau in Cerro Kuatiá, Capitán Bado, plus about 2,000 kg drying nearby and a camp, under the SUMAR plan. No arrests were reported.
Hectares 2Cannabis 2,000 kg
Sri Lanka Customs found 2.4 kg of cannabis and 12.4 kg of hashish worth Rs 157 million hidden inside wooden table boards shipped from Thailand as a gift. A 29-year-old suspect from Ragama was taken into Customs custody.
Arrested 1Cannabis 14.8 kg
Nagpur Rural Police raided a farm at Gangaji Dareli in Kalmeshwar on a tip-off and seized nine growing ganja plants weighing 1.358 kg. The farm's caretaker was arrested; police are probing whether the crop links to a smuggling racket.
Arrested 1Plants destroyed 9Cannabis 1.4 kg
Mumbai Crime Branch's Anti-Narcotics Cell seized 3.563 kg of hydro ganja worth about Rs 1.24 crore near Umar Khadi Cross Lane in Dongri on 28 October 2026. Two men carrying the drug in blue plastic bags were arrested under the NDPS Act.
Arrested 2Cannabis 3.6 kg
At the South Astara customs post on the Iranian border, officers searching a lorry bound for Russia found 97.685 kg of marijuana in 90 packages under a load of fresh lettuce. The State Customs Committee said the vehicle was carrying the cargo in transit through Azerbaijan and that an investigation had begun.
Sri Lanka Customs opened nine uncollected foreign postal parcels at the Central Mail Exchange in Colombo and seized kush, hashish, ecstasy and cocaine worth Rs 60.26 million. The parcels came from Thailand, Spain, Britain and the US; the drugs went to the Police Narcotic Bureau.
Cannabis 6 kg
Police in Bila Tserkva district, Kyiv Oblast, detained four local men and seized about 50 kg of cannabis, 209 cannabis plants and cash. All four were charged over producing and selling drugs, three also over growing cannabis for sale, and a court ordered them held without bail.
Arrested 4Charged 4Plants destroyed 209Cannabis 50 kg
Justice Akintayo Aluko jailed businesswoman Jumoke Akinusi for 18 months, or a 500,000 naira fine, after she pleaded guilty to exporting 1.10 kilograms of cannabis to Cape Verde. The NDLEA said she sent the drug through Murtala Muhammed International Airport on 14 August 2026.
Charged 1Cannabis 1.1 kgPrison 18 monthsFine NGN 500,000
Thames Valley Police found cannabis inside a house in Stonea Close, Lower Earley, on 28 October after being called to a report of drugs offences. No one was arrested, officers could not say how much cannabis was found, and a resident's suspicion that the house was a cannabis farm was not confirmed.
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State Security Service officers and Tashkent police arrested a 33-year-old online drug store courier in Yunusabad district on 28 October 2026, finding 257 g of hashish oil on him and 2.831 kg more at his flat with scales. A criminal case was opened and suppliers are being traced.
Arrested 1Cannabis 3.1 kg
On 28 October 2026 Strumica police filed a criminal complaint against a medical-cannabis company in Borisovo and its manager, V.K., after an inspection found 7,813.49 kg of dried flower unaccounted for.
Railway Police (RPF and GRP) caught Rahul Miah (19) on platform no. 1 of Agartala Railway Station on 28 October 2026 with 6.105 kg of cannabis worth about Rs 3 lakh. NDPS case 2026GRP075 was registered against him.
Arrested 1Cannabis 6.1 kg
The Second Sentencing Court of Santa Tecla sentenced Emilio Adonay Pacheco Arévalo, 22, to six years for possession after police found 84.4 grams of cannabis on him on 30 April 2026 at kilometre 11 of the road to Puerto de La Libertad.
Charged 1Prison 6 years
Desiree Shear, 38, of Gordon, Wisconsin, was sentenced on 28 October 2026 after pleading no contest to driving with a controlled substance while her two teenage daughters were in the car. The case began with a November 2025 traffic stop on Highway 53, where a state trooper reported smelling marijuana and arrested her on drugged-driving, THC possession and paraphernalia charges.
Arrested 1Charged 1
Kalinga police uprooted and burned 544,000 fully grown marijuana plants across seven sites in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, on 27 October 2026, an operation the provincial office valued at about ₱108.8 million. No cultivators were arrested.
Plants destroyed 544,000Hectares 4.9
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