🇬🇵 Guadeloupe
RSS36 reports of cannabis enforcement.
- People arrested
- 97
- Plants destroyed
- 1,342
- Cannabis seized
- 4.28531 t
Only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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- Seizure · 20
- Raid · 3
- Arrest · 8
- Sentence · 5
Reports
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202610 reports
Two held as police find cocaine and cannabis sachets at Péricarpin, Pointe-à-Pitre
Police ran two security operations in Pointe-à-Pitre on 28 and 29 September 2026, in Mortenol and at the Péricarpin and Cipolin housing estates, and arrested two people. Officers found about fifty sachets containing cocaine and cannabis herb during the second operation.
Arrested 2Five arrested, over 6 kg cannabis seized in Pointe-à-Pitre raid
Police arrested five people during a 21 September 2026 operation in Bergevin, Pointe-à-Pitre, seizing more than 6 kg of cannabis herb from a dwelling and common areas. Four arrests were linked to suspected drug trafficking, while one person was wanted on an arrest warrant and another faced an order to leave France.
Arrested 5Cannabis 6 kgOver 11 kg cannabis and 5 handguns seized in Guadeloupe operations
Guadeloupe territorial police seized more than 11 kg of cannabis, five handguns, cocaine, crack and 94 cartons of contraband cigarettes in recent targeted operations. Several people were arrested and placed in police custody during the interventions.
Cannabis 11 kg
Man held with 50 g cannabis on patrol in Pointe-à-Pitre
Gendarmes on a routine patrol in Pointe-à-Pitre stopped a man and found 50 grams of packaged cannabis herb on him on 10 July 2026. The patrol was run by a mobile gendarmerie squadron from Toulouse deployed to Guadeloupe as reinforcements, and the gendarmerie presented the seizure as part of its drive to saturate the ground against trafficking.
Arrested 1Cannabis 50 gOne arrested as cannabis, crack, cocaine seized in Deshaies
Gendarmes arrested one suspect at his home in Ferry, Deshaies, on 8 July 2026 after a months-long inquiry into a local drug-selling point. Officers seized cannabis herb alongside crack, cocaine and cash suspected to come from resale.
Arrested 1Six arrested as 55 kg cannabis seized at Petit-Bourg landing
Gendarmerie arrested six men at the Petit-Bourg landing on 3 July 2026 after intercepting a boat from Dominica being unloaded. Officers seized 55 kg of cannabis herb alongside 2,800 contraband cigarette cartouches, a boat and other trafficking-related items.
Arrested 6Cannabis 55 kg
Seven held as cannabis found on Goyave bus checks
Gendarmes, customs officers and a dog team stopped line 105 and 106 buses at Goyave on 29 May 2026 and arrested seven people found with illicit products, one of them a passenger carrying a large quantity of cannabis. All seven were placed in police custody.
Arrested 71.26 kg cannabis and 75 phones seized in Baie-Mahault prison search
About 200 prison officers and gendarmes searched Baie-Mahault prison in Guadeloupe on 22 May 2026, checking 40 cells and 153 detainees and seizing 1.2 kg of cannabis herb, 56 g of resin, 75 phones and bladed weapons. The search followed a stabbing between detainees on 15 May.
Cannabis 1.256 kgMan jailed 3 years after Basse-Terre check finds 9.6 kg cannabis
BAC officers in Basse-Terre stopped a driver and then searched an associate's home, seizing 9.57 kg of cannabis herb and 44.69 g of resin plus cocaine, cash and a handgun. Two men were arrested; the driver was punished for road offences and the other was sentenced to three years in prison.
Arrested 2Sentenced 1Cannabis 9.61469 kgPrison 3 years
Three 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)
Cannabis and cocaine packets seized in northern Grande-Terre gendarmerie controls
Gendarmes of the Le Moule company carried out a week of targeted anti-crime operations in Port-Louis and Morne-à-l'Eau, in northern Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, at the prosecutor's request. Officers found several packets of cannabis and cocaine and a replica Glock pistol; the accounts report no drug weights and no suspects arrested.
10 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 months
283 g of cannabis and a grow room found in Marie-Galante home search
Gendarmes searching a private home at Marie-Galante on 22 October 2025 found 283 grams of cannabis herb, 13 plants, drying branches and a grow room. A customs check of a shop on the island added 20 grams of cannabis herb, with the anti-smuggling drive also netting 2,193 cigarettes and 1 kg of loose tobacco.
Plants destroyed 13Cannabis 303 g
Gendarmes seize 971 g of cannabis in Grande-Terre weekend raids
Gendarmes of the Le Moule company seized 971 grams of cannabis in operations across Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, over the week ending 21 September 2025. Weekend checks in Sainte-Anne, Morne-à-l'Eau and Saint-François netted 64 g, 501 g and 125 g, alongside small amounts of cocaine and crack.
Cannabis 971 gGendarmes seize 179 g of cannabis in two Guadeloupe drug-spot raids
Gendarmes raided a known dealing spot on rue de la Liberté in Saint-François and a street in Sainte-Anne on 17 September 2025, seizing 179.39 grams of cannabis in total alongside cocaine and crack. No arrests were reported in the accounts of the operations.
Cannabis 179.39 gCannabis seized and two arrested in Guadeloupe prefect's first operation at Zamia
Police ran an operation in the Cour Zamia neighbourhood of Pointe-à-Pitre on the evening of 1 September 2025, arresting two Dominican nationals in an irregular situation and seizing cannabis herb packed for resale. RCI reported about 150 grams and Guadeloupe La 1ère about 250 grams; the higher figure is recorded.
Arrested 2Cannabis 250 g
13 arrested in Guadeloupe-Dominica network; 47 kg cannabis seized
Gendarmerie officers dismantled a Venezuela-Dominica-Guadeloupe trafficking network, arresting ten suspects between 30 May and 2 June 2025 after an earlier beach seizure netted three more. The cannabis component totalled 47 kg across the two seizures, alongside much larger cocaine hauls that are excluded from cannabis figures.
Arrested 13Charged 10Cannabis 47 kg
Gendarmes find 8-plant cannabis crop at Le Moule; 3 kg seized, one held
Gendarmes of Le Moule's DSI surveillance unit detained a suspect in a firearms-threats case and, searching his home for the weapon, found 8 flowering cannabis plants and about 460 grams of dried buds. After the plants were pulled up and weighed, the gendarmerie counted more than 3 kg of cannabis; the investigation continued into whether the suspect sold his crop.
Arrested 1Plants destroyed 8Cannabis 3 kg
20243 reports
Three jailed up to 6 years over 24 kg cannabis import
On 6 April 2024, three Dominican men were caught in a surveillance sting as their boat the Red Snipper landed 24 kg of cannabis herb on a Trois-Rivières beach in Guadeloupe. A court sentenced them on 3 December 2024 to six years, three years and eighteen months, all kept in custody.
Cannabis 24 kgPrison 6 years, 3 years, 18 months
2.24 kg cannabis and €1,010 seized in Baie-Mahault home search; seller held
Gendarmes arrested a man in his sixties at his home in Baie-Mahault, Guadeloupe, on 9 April 2024 and seized 2.24 kilograms of packaged cannabis, three precision scales and 1,010 euros in small notes. He admitted the cannabis was for his own use and resale and was summoned to court the following June.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 2.24 kgSites 1
Six 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 kg
20231 report
Four held as 641 g cannabis found in Basse-Terre check
Police checking identities in Bas-du-Bourg, Basse-Terre, on the evening of 21 September 2023 arrested four Dominican nationals in an irregular situation and fined a man carrying a little cannabis herb. Officers then found abandoned bags holding 641 grams of cannabis herb and 23.58 grams of cannabis resin with other drugs, seizing it all for destruction.
Arrested 4Cannabis 664.58 g
20223 reports
More than 30 drying cannabis plants seized in Pointe-à-Pitre
Police seized cannabis plants drying on lines in an abandoned house at Cour Zamia, Pointe-à-Pitre, on 31 May 2022 after a drug dog found two sachets of cannabis in tall grass. The plants were seized and destroyed; the account reports people fleeing but no arrests.
387 cannabis plants found on a neighbour's plot in Saint-François
Gendarmes in Saint-François, Guadeloupe, searching a home over alleged thefts found 387 cannabis plants on the neighbouring plot and took the two neighbours into police custody. Both admitted growing and holding the plants but said the crop was for their personal consumption.
Arrested 2Plants destroyed 387Germinal 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 kg
20211 report
One person due to stand trial after 141 plants seized in Le Gosier
Police searched a Port Blanc home in Le Gosier after receiving information that one resident was producing and selling cannabis herb, seizing 141 plants grown indoors and outdoors, indoor growing installations and ammunition cartridges of 9 mm and 7.65 mm calibre. One person implicated in the case was due to be tried before the judicial court in Pointe-à-Pitre.
Charged 1Plants destroyed 141
20201 report
115 cannabis plants seized at Massy, Sainte-Rose; grower held
A cannabis plantation of 115 plants was seized at Massy in Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe, on the morning of 16 September 2020. The grower was apprehended at the scene.
Arrested 1Plants destroyed 115
20183 reports
Dominican boat owner jailed six months over 10 kg cannabis landed at Vieux-Fort
The Basse-Terre criminal court sentenced the Dominican boat owner caught landing 10 kg of cannabis at Vieux-Fort in April 2018 to six months in prison, four of them suspended. It also imposed a three-year ban from French territory, a €20,000 fine and continued detention, while investigators still sought his local accomplices.
Arrested 1Cannabis 10 kgPrison 6 months, 4 suspendedFine EUR 20,000
178 cannabis plants seized from a Le Moule grower; one summonsed
Gendarmes searched a home in Le Moule, Guadeloupe, on 7 March 2018 and found 178 cannabis plants in a working grow room, seizing them and growing equipment from a cultivator. After police custody the suspect was summonsed to appear before a judge, and no outcome of that hearing was reported.
Arrested 1Plants destroyed 178
Customs find 241 kg of hashish in cars inside a Pointe-à-Pitre container
Guadeloupe customs officers seized 241 kilograms of cannabis resin, which they valued at 1.7 million euros, from bags hidden in two cars carried inside a container unloaded at the port of Pointe-à-Pitre on 30 January 2018. A judicial inquiry into trafficking between mainland France and Guadeloupe was given to the local branch of the OCRTIS anti-drug office.
Cannabis 241 kg
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