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
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
A 90-person joint team found about 18 hectares of cannabis in Teupin Reusep, North Aceh, on 27 October 2026 and handed four farmers to police. The plants were one to two metres tall and two to four months old. The site is in the same village where BNN destroyed 69 tonnes in November 2025.
The Basra criminal court sentenced a man to death under Article 27(1) of the 2017 drug law after large quantities of methamphetamine and hashish were found in his possession for sale. The Supreme Judicial Council announced the judgment on 27 October 2026. Article 27(1) is one of the law's trafficking provisions and carries death or life imprisonment.
Anti-drug police searched a Thai vessel off Baie-du-Tombeau on 23 October 2026 while investigating two suspected seaborne cannabis deliveries totalling just over a tonne. Seven crew were arrested, with an eighth suspect caught at the airport on 27 October trying to leave the country.
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The General Operations Force arrested a 30-year-old man in Rantau Panjang on 27 October 2026 over a seizure at a courier outlet: 3 kg of cannabis, 56 g of flowers and 10 boxes of cannabis-oil vapes. A Camry was seized and he was held under Section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act.
Arrested 1Cannabis 3.1 kg
The Interior Ministry's deputy minister for counter-narcotics said the ministry had carried out more than 8,000 operations against drug suspects in 2026 and arrested more than 10,000 people. He also claimed 4,300 operations to round up addicts and 12,500 operations to destroy poppy fields.
Crime Intelligence and Paarl police raided a house in Lemoenkloof on 27 October, finding a cannabis cultivation lab with plants, products, magic mushrooms and growing equipment. Two men and a woman were arrested for dealing and were due in court on 29 October.
Arrested 3
Nepal's Narcotics Control Bureau arrested two women from Gujarat at Tribhuvan International Airport on 27 October 2026 with 14 kg of Thai ganja. They had flown in from Thailand via Malaysia on Batik Air flight OD-182.
Arrested 2Cannabis 14 kg
A joint police and PDEA team destroyed 1,200 marijuana plants and 400 seedlings worth P256,000 at Sitio Taba-ao in Kibungan on 26 October 2026. The operation was part of Oplan Grass Cutter.
Plants destroyed 1,200
A joint force led by Yonif 734/SNS with five task forces, military intelligence and Air Force security swept community plantation land at Kampung Sinimbuk, Serambakon, in October 2026. They found and uprooted 1,657 harvest-ready cannabis stems to keep them from being harvested and misused.
Plants destroyed 1,657
A joint Athagad-Banki excise team acting on a tip-off tried to stop a cannabis-loaded car near Nuasadak Chhak, Tigiria, on 11 October 2026. The car rammed the excise vehicle and fled toward Athagarh before crashing into a barrier at Marugoth Chhak; the smugglers escaped to the forest, abandoning 120 kg of ganja worth Rs 12 lakh.
Cannabis 120 kg
Badalpur police and the Anti-Narcotics Team stopped a truck with an escort car at the Kudi Kheda turn on 13 October 2026 and found 165.7 kg of ganja worth Rs 1 crore in a secret cavity. Three Bihar men running an Odisha-to-Delhi line were arrested, led by a 2021 repeat offender.
Arrested 3Cannabis 165.7 kg
Police recorded 77 drug-mule cases at Kuala Lumpur International Airport between January and 15 October 2026, arresting 93 people and seizing 2,526 kg of drugs worth RM202.76 million. Cannabis dominated the haul at 2,407 kg across 64 cases; Britons made up the largest group arrested.
Arrested 93Cannabis 2,407.3 kg
Police arrested 22-year-old Bishwaraj Rai near Saguri Bridge in Katari Municipality-6 on the night of 11 October 2026 with about 110 kg of marijuana allegedly being carried from the Junglebo area toward Siraha.
Arrested 1Cannabis 110 kg
Sigra police stopped a pickup near the old iron tank at Pachpedwa, Varanasi, on 14 October 2026 and found 31.275 kg of ganja worth Rs 15 lakh under cattle-feed sacks. Bihar supplier Rajkishore Gaur was arrested; the stock was meant for festival sale.
Arrested 1Cannabis 31.3 kg
An Armed Police Force team from the Nocha border outpost stopped a vegetable-laden pickup bound for India at Ramchowk, Jahada-4, around 11 PM on Saturday 10 October 2026. The driver fled; hidden among chayote and cabbage were 19 packets holding 570 kg of marijuana.
Cannabis 570 kg
Gurugram Crime Branch stopped a Rajasthan-registered truck near Rajiv Chowk on the night of 25-26 October 2026 and found 673 kg of ganja under bags of plastic granules. The truck owner-driver and cleaner, both from Rajasthan, were remanded to ten days' police custody.
Arrested 2Cannabis 673 kg
Customs found 7,335 grams of kush hidden in food-labelled foil inside three unclaimed bags at NAIA on 26 October, linked to two Bangkok arrivals from September. PDEA, inter-agency police and canine units joined the inspection; no owner has been identified.
Cannabis 7.3 kg
A joint Lahan-Maheshwari police team raided a house in Kalyanpur, Sakhuwanankarkatti rural municipality, on the night of 12 October 2026 on a tip about marijuana sales. Officers found 90 kg in a plastic bag inside a white sack and arrested homeowner Jagdish Yadav, 43.
Arrested 1Cannabis 90 kg
Around 2 AM on Monday 12 October 2026 police found a Bolero pickup abandoned on the Ranitaar-Beltar inner road at Chargare, Chaudandigadhi-1. Inside were 29 plastic sacks holding 940.44 kg of marijuana; the owner is being traced.
Cannabis 940.4 kg
An army unit destroyed about 60 dunums of cultivated kif cannabis at al-Kanisa, Baalbek, on 10 October 2026. Seventeen Syrian workers without legal papers were detained with harvest equipment in their possession, and the investigation runs under the competent judiciary.
Arrested 17Hectares 6
The Lebanese Army said it destroyed about 180 dunums of cannabis and seized about 60 tonnes of the crop at Jabab al-Hamr near Hermel on 26 October 2026. A next-day newsletter roundup confirmed the figures and noted a related arrest in Brital.
Hectares 18Cannabis 60,000 kg
Hariharganj police stopped a CNG autorickshaw on NH-139 on 12 October 2026 and found 18.47 kg of ganja in 18 packets hidden in a box under the seats. Driver Md Nayeem, 52, was arrested and sent to judicial custody under the NDPS Act; police suspect a Bihar run.
Arrested 1Cannabis 18.5 kg
DRI officers intercepted an Indian passenger arriving from Bangkok at Hyderabad airport on 12 October 2026 on specific intelligence. Inside an electric geyser in his check-in baggage were 73 packets of hydroponic weed worth Rs 2.71 crore; he was arrested under the NDPS Act.
Arrested 1Cannabis 7.8 kg
After five days of surveillance along the Indo-Nepal border, a joint DRI Muzaffarpur-Bihar STF team raided a Raxaul hideout in the early hours of Saturday 10 October 2026. Ten packets of Nepal-origin charas weighing 5.14 kg and worth Rs 5.14 crore were recovered; the suspected mastermind and one aide bound for Indore were arrested under the NDPS Act.
Arrested 2Cannabis 5.1 kg
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