Anti-Narcotics Office (OFAST)
🇫🇷 France · Anti-narcotics agency · 24 reports
- People arrested
- 102
- Cannabis seized
- 22.3913 t
Totals of what these reports state; a report counts when a source it cites names the agency.
Eight jailed in Toulon as Hyères drug case yields 7.7 kg of cannabis resin
Eight people were placed under formal investigation and remanded in custody in Toulon over a drug-trafficking network centred on the Val-des-Rougières estate in Hyères. Searches after the 3 November 2026 raids in four Var towns seized 7.7 kg of cannabis resin, 1 kg of herbal cannabis, €35,600 and two pistols.
Arrested 8Charged 8Cannabis 8.7 kgCash confiscated EUR 35,600Couple jailed after 202 kg of cannabis seized at Mazères toll
Foix criminal court on 27 October 2026 sentenced a Spanish driver to four years and his Colombian partner to three years (two suspended) after customs found 186.45 kg of cannabis resin and 16.4 kg of herbal cannabis in their hire car at the A66 Mazères toll on 21 October.
Charged 2Cannabis 202.85 kgPrison 4 years; 3 years (2 suspended)Fine EUR 617,750A7 Reventin: ten years for Amra Cerbah after 839 kg resin go-fast
Customs at the Reventin-Vaugris toll on the A7 seized 837 kg of Moroccan resin from a southbound car in the night of 19–20 October 2026; driver Amra Cerbah, 23, said he owed traffickers after his brother Mohand-Achour Cerbah was caught with 1.183 kg on the A75 in April. The Vienne court on 23 October 2026 sentenced him to ten years in prison.
Cannabis 839 kgPrison 10 yearsThree years for 263 kg of cannabis hidden in a PMR van at Le Boulou
Customs at the Le Boulou A9 toll found 263 kg of cannabis pollen in sports bags in a wheelchair access van on 9 September 2026. On 14 September the Perpignan court sentenced the sole driver to three years in prison and a €2.63 million customs fine; customs valued the load above €2 million.
Cannabis 263 kgPrison 3 yearsFine EUR 2,630,000Perpignan court jails truck driver for four years over 495 kg of hashish
Customs at the Le Boulou toll on the A9 found 495 kg of cannabis resin hidden in a Spanish-plated refrigerated trailer declared as food, bound for Italy. On 5 August 2026 the Perpignan court gave the driver four years in prison with remand, a permanent ban from French territory and a €991,750 customs fine; customs valued the resin at nearly €4 million.
Cannabis 495 kgPrison 4 yearsFine EUR 991,750113 kg of cannabis resin seized from a lorry at Lauzerte; driver charged
Customs officers arrested a lorry driver on a country road at Lauzerte, Tarn-et-Garonne, on 1 July 2026 after he tried to force their roadblock, and found 113 kg of cannabis resin from Spain in a magnetic cache in the vehicle. A Montauban judge charged him with importing and transporting narcotics and with customs smuggling, and remanded him in pre-trial detention two days later.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 113 kg185 kg cannabis seized at Roissy; 5 held in Brittany-Martinique probe
Customs seized 185 kg of cannabis from four couriers at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport on 2 May 2026 before a flight to Martinique. A fifth suspect was arrested in Rennes as the alleged organizer, and all five were placed in pretrial detention under an OFAST investigation.
Arrested 5Cannabis 185 kgThree jailed 30 months for 30 kg cannabis landed at Saint-François
The Pointe-à-Pitre criminal court sentenced three men to 30 months of firm imprisonment on 23 February 2026 over the night landing of cannabis at Anse à la barque, Saint-François, one of them a departmental council employee. OFAST officers had arrested four people on 12 January with about 243 kg of cannabis herb and resin and two handguns.
Arrested 4Charged 3Cannabis 243.28 kgPrison 30 months (firm)355 kg resin found in Barcelona-bound truck at Arles toll; driver jailed 3 years
Customs officers of the Nîmes brigade found 355 kilograms of cannabis resin hidden behind sacks of sawdust in a truck stopped at the Arles toll on the A54 on the night of 29 January 2026. The 53-year-old driver was sentenced on 3 February to three years in prison, a five-year ban from France and a 710,000-euro customs fine.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 355 kgPrison 3 years10 arrested, 133.5 kg of cannabis seized on Guadeloupe's south coast
On the night of 2 to 3 November 2025, OFAST officers in Guadeloupe arrested ten people and seized 131.061 kg of cannabis herb and 2.44 kg of resin after a landing at Trois-Rivières and Capesterre-Belle-Eau. Three suspects' hearing was postponed until December, and two others were sentenced to six months in prison.
Arrested 10Sentenced 2Cannabis 133.501 kgPrison 6 months18 arrested as 50 kg cannabis resin found in cars aboard ship at Le Port
Gendarmes arrested 18 people in Réunion and mainland France on 25 October 2025 and found 497 bars of cannabis resin, more than 50 kg, hidden in new vehicles aboard the Grand Hero at Port Est the next day. One suspect was a docker suspected of facilitating the imports, and the gendarmerie valued the resin at more than one million euros.
Arrested 18Cannabis 50 kgVehicles confiscated 12Cash confiscated EUR 162,640Police seize 15.3 tonnes of hashish hidden in watermelon truck
Spanish police seized more than 15.3 tonnes of hashish from a truck that arrived from Nador, Morocco, at the port of Almería, hidden among watermelon pallets and inside fake plastic sweet potatoes. Eight suspects were arrested in Huércal de Almería and Torremolinos in the joint operation with Moroccan and French agencies.
Arrested 8Cannabis 15.3 t940.7 kg of cannabis resin seized from a sailboat; four held
A French Navy vessel boarded a Portuguese-flagged sailing ship in the Atlantic on 6 June 2025 and found 24 bales of cannabis resin weighing 940.7 kg. Four people were detained and taken to Fort-de-France, where the OFAST anti-narcotics office took over the investigation.
Arrested 4Cannabis 940.7 kg107 kg of cannabis seized from a yole at Anses d'Arlet; three held, one jailed
Customs, navy and RAID police intercepted a cannabis landing at Anses d'Arlet in Martinique on 28 March 2025, seizing 107.24 kg from an abandoned car and boarding the yole that brought it in. Three suspects were held; the man detained on land got one year in prison and a 160,000 euro fine, while the two taken at sea were freed with orders to leave France.
Arrested 3Charged 1Sentenced 1Released 2500 kg cannabis resin seized in container at Fort-de-France port
Anti-narcotics officers intercepted close to 500 kg of cannabis resin in a container from Le Havre at the port of Fort-de-France in December 2024, in a two-way cocaine and cannabis route run from inside a prison. The alleged organiser, among France's 50 biggest traffickers, was placed under formal investigation and more than half a million euros was seized from his accounts.
Charged 1Cannabis 500 kg110 kg of cannabis seized from a Spain-bound go-fast convoy in Deuil-la-Barre
Police arrested four men in Deuil-la-Barre, Val-d'Oise, on 5 April 2024 as a three-vehicle convoy from Spain prepared to unload nearly 110 kg of cannabis herb from a Peugeot 5008. An OFAST investigation into the alleged 43-year-old organiser, a repeat offender, preceded the interception.
Arrested 4Cannabis 110 kgSix arrested as 186 kg cannabis seized on Gosier beach
Police arrested six people during a night drug landing on Anse à Jacques beach in Le Gosier on 14 January 2024. Officers seized 186 kg of cannabis herb and the boat, alongside 10.9 kg of cocaine handled as a separate non-cannabis component.
Arrested 6Cannabis 186 kg151 kg of cannabis resin seized from a container at a Martinique moving firm
Officers of France's Ofast anti-narcotics office searched a moving company in Martinique and found 151 kilos of cannabis resin hidden in household appliances inside a container sent from Le Havre. No one came to claim the load, and an investigation was opened to find those who ordered it.
Cannabis 151 kg610 kg of cannabis resin seized in a container at Fort-de-France port
French customs officers checking containers at Fort-de-France's Pointe des Grives terminal found 610 kg of cannabis resin in bags hidden in a shipment from Le Havre on 10 August 2023. The drugs were handed to the OFAST anti-narcotics office for destruction and an investigation was opened to find those behind the shipment.
Cannabis 610 kg147 kg of zamal seized near Sainte-Rose port; eight held
Gendarmes seized 147 kg of zamal, including 1 kg of resin, in 19 sports bags near the port of Sainte-Rose on 17 June 2022. Eight suspects were taken into custody, with four summoned to court and four held for immediate trial.
Arrested 8Charged 8Cannabis 147 kg20 kg of cannabis seized from a fleeing yole off Martinique; no arrests
The French navy patrol boat La Combattante recovered five packages of cannabis, 20 kg in total, thrown overboard by a yole that fled towards Sainte-Lucie in the night of 3 June 2022. The boat and its crew escaped, and the drugs were handed to the OFAST anti-narcotics office in Fort-de-France the same day.
Cannabis 20 kgGerminal seizes 561 kg of cannabis from a yole west of Martinique; seven held
French navy sailors on the frigate Germinal recovered nine bales holding 561 kg of cannabis after intercepting a yole on the high seas west of Martinique on 24 May 2022, and the seven Venezuelans aboard were handed to the OFAST anti-drug office. Brought to the Fort-de-France criminal court in immediate appearance, the seven were remanded in detention and their trial was adjourned to 13 June 2022.
Arrested 7Charged 7Cannabis 561 kgGerminal crew seize 435 kg of cannabis from a go-fast off Guadeloupe
French navy sailors on the frigate Germinal stopped a fast boat south-west of Guadeloupe in the night of 11 February 2022 and recovered 11 bales of cannabis weighing 435 kg after the crew threw them overboard. Five crew members, three French and two Venezuelan, were handed to the Fort-de-France prosecutor and the OFAST anti-drug office and placed in detention.
Arrested 5Cannabis 435 kg435 kg of cannabis seized off Guadeloupe; 10 jailed in Fort-de-France
OCRTIS and GIPN officers stopped four vehicles carrying 435 kg of cannabis herb between Sainte-Rose and Deshaies in Guadeloupe in October 2016, after a cargo landing from Saint Vincent. Ten members of the network were placed under formal investigation and jailed by a Fort-de-France judge.
Arrested 10Charged 10Cannabis 435 kg