🇲🇶 Martinique
RSS39 reports of cannabis enforcement.
- People arrested
- 70
- Plants destroyed
- 1,371
- Cannabis seized
- 8.54721 t
- Deaths
- 1
Only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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- Seizure · 24
- Raid · 2
- Arrest · 2
- Sentence · 11
Reports
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Cannabis trafficker jailed 25 years for 2019 murder in Martinique
The cour d'assises de Fort-de-France sentenced a 39-year-old Saint Lucian, already convicted of trafficking cannabis between Saint Lucia and Martinique, to 25 years of réclusion criminelle on 6 November 2026 for murdering a 23-year-old man in Sainte-Anne on 26 December 2019. The court found premeditation, ordered a two-thirds security period and banned him from French territory for life.
Charged 1Convicted 1Sentenced 1Prison 25 years with a two-thirds security period
Man jailed 3 years over 34 kg cannabis resin at Martinique airport
A 34-year-old repeat offender from Limoges was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison for trying to smuggle 34 kilos of cannabis resin through Martinique's Aimé Césaire airport. He was jailed in Ducos, banned from Martinique and ordered to pay a 50,000-euro customs fine.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 34 kgPrison 3 years and 4 monthsTwo Saint Lucians jailed 2 years over 65 kg cannabis off Sainte-Luce
Two Saint Lucian men aged 36 and 55 were sentenced to 24 months in prison in Fort-de-France after being caught with 65 kilos of cannabis herb aboard a yole off Sainte-Luce. The Marin naval brigade intercepted them on 29 September 2026, and the court also banned the older man from French territory for three years.
Arrested 2Charged 2Cannabis 65 kgPrison 24 months
916 g cannabis resin seized in Dillon, Fort-de-France
On 8 September 2026, French police seized 916 grammes of cannabis resin from a motorcyclist during a large anti-delinquency operation in Dillon, Fort-de-France. National police from the DTPN, two gendarmerie platoons and the vehicle-pound team ran the checks, also stopping a youth with a knife and immobilising three motorbikes.
Cannabis 916 g
Ten drug fines and 60 g of cannabis seized in Ducos and Le Saint-Esprit
Gendarmes deployed to three sensitive sectors of Ducos and Le Saint-Esprit in southern Martinique on 5 June 2026, searching for drugs, weapons and ammunition for about three hours. They seized 60 grams of cannabis herb and two cartridges and wrote ten fixed drug fines, without reporting any arrests.
Cannabis 60 gMan, 41, arrested with handgun and cannabis resin in Fort-de-France
Police arrested a 41-year-old man on avenue Maurice Bishop in Fort-de-France on the night of 4 June 2026 after he fled a road check, finding a loaded Sarsilmaz handgun and cannabis resin on him. He was held in police custody and brought before the courts over the weapon and the drugs.
Arrested 1
Two detained as 579 cannabis plants seized in Rivière-Salée
Gendarmes seized 579 cannabis plants and 2.614 kg of cannabis herb, heads and pollen at a home grow in Rivière-Salée, Martinique, detaining a father and son. The father was brought before the Fort-de-France court on drug supply charges while the son faces drug-use proceedings.
Arrested 2Charged 2Plants destroyed 579Cannabis 2.614 kg
GIGN raid on Le François cabin: 5.7 kg cannabis, 3 guns seized, one held
Gendarmes backed by the GIGN arrested a man from Sainte-Lucie at a drug-supply cabin in Le François on 9 April 2026. The search found more than 5.7 kg of cannabis herb, three handguns and 58 rounds; he was jailed pending a hearing set for 18 May.
Arrested 1Cannabis 5.7 kg
Two jailed 4 years over 3.485 kg cannabis resin stash in Terres-Sainville
Fort-de-France's correctional court sentenced two men to four years in prison and a third to two years, one suspended, for drugs and weapons found in a Terres-Sainville house raided on 12 November 2025. Police seized 3.485 kg of cannabis resin there, alongside cocaine, a ballistic vest and firearm parts.
Arrested 3Charged 3Cannabis 3.485 kgPrison 4 years984 g of cannabis resin seized in Dillon postal parcels
Customs and La Poste staff checking parcels at the Dillon sorting centre in Fort-de-France seized 984 g of cannabis resin, 26 counterfeit wireless earbuds and 90 g of rolling tobacco on 2 March 2026. Prefect Étienne Desplanques attended the operation; no arrests were reported.
Cannabis 984 g
Customs seize 5 kg of cannabis herb from a speedboat off Martinique
French customs coastguard officers stopped a speedboat from Saint Lucia near the Martinique coast on 25 January 2026 and found more than 5 kg of cannabis herb hidden in the passengers' luggage, alongside 105.8 kg of smuggled cigarettes. The cannabis case was handed to the national police's territorial directorate in Martinique.
Cannabis 5 kg
650 kg of cannabis resin seized in fridges at Fort-de-France; five charged
Officers seized 650 kg of cannabis resin hidden in appliances at the port of Fort-de-France on 7 December 2025. Five suspects aged 23 to 39 were charged in Paris over an organised trafficking network running between Île-de-France and Martinique.
Arrested 5Charged 5Cannabis 655 kgCash confiscated EUR 27,000Man jailed 15 months over Glock and 110 g of cannabis in Le Lamentin
Fort-de-France's criminal court sentenced a 25-year-old man to 15 months in prison on 1 December 2025 for illegally possessing a loaded Glock and 110 g of cannabis resin found in his car outside the AS Discothèque in Le Lamentin. The court fined him 1,500 euros and banned him from firearms for ten years; two people were arrested in the 18 October operation and four weapons were seized.
Arrested 2Charged 1Convicted 1Sentenced 1
651 cannabis plants seized from a home grow in Le Marin, Martinique
Gendarmes of the Le Marin brigade searched a private home in the Fonds Gens Libres district of Martinique on 29 November 2025 and seized 651 cannabis plants, 230 grams of dried herb, an indoor grow set-up and a greenhouse behind a dog enclosure. The occupant, a man in his forties, was placed in provisional detention and the inquiry continued under the Fort-de-France prosecutor's office.
Arrested 1Plants destroyed 651Cannabis 230 gDucos detainee and relative jailed over half a kilo of prison resin
A Ducos prison detainee and one of his relatives were convicted after he was found with half a kilo of cannabis resin at the Martinique prison's visiting room. The inmate will serve an extra year, the woman got 12 months with six firm, and a prison officer was cleared.
Arrested 3Charged 2Cannabis 500 gPrison 12 months, 6 firm (the woman); one extra year (the detainee)
Revolver and cannabis seized in a Terres-Sainville security sweep in Fort-de-France
Police checked 37 people in Fort-de-France's Terres-Sainville district on 2 October 2025 and seized a revolver along with crack, cannabis herb and cannabis resin, taking four scooters off the road. It was the second security sweep in the district in three days, after two homicides there in two months.
55 kg of cannabis seized at an illegal landing in south Martinique
At about 22:00 on 4 September 2025, gendarmes, navy sailors and customs officers collected more than 55 kg of cannabis herb as a boat landed its load on Martinique's south coast, and the people aboard fled towards the Saint Lucia Channel. No arrests were reported and the prosecutor's office is leading the investigation.
Cannabis 55 kg
940.7 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 kg
107 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 2
20244 reports
500 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 kg
18 mixed cocaine-marijuana bales seized 850 km off Martinique
On 25 September 2024, the French frigate Germinal intercepted an unflagged fast boat about 850 km off Martinique and seized 18 bales of cocaine and marijuana weighing 526 kg combined. The drugs were destroyed under Fort-de-France prosecutor approval in the French forces' 12th Antilles seizure of 2024.
Man jailed 40 months over 25 kg cannabis resin at Martinique airport
Customs officers and police arrested a passenger arriving from Paris with 25 kilos of cannabis resin at Martinique's Aimé Césaire airport on 31 May 2024. The Fort-de-France correctional court sentenced him in immediate-appearance proceedings to 40 months in prison and a customs fine of more than 220,000 euros.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 25 kgPrison 40 months
Martinique: 10 jailed up to 11 years for importing drugs from Saint Lucia
The Fort-de-France JIRS correctional court convicted ten people in March 2024 of importing cocaine, crack and cannabis from Saint Lucia to Martinique by sea. It sentenced them to prison terms of two to eleven years and kept all but one, a fugitive, in detention.
Arrested 10Charged 10Convicted 10Sentenced 10
151 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 kg
1,700 kg of cannabis seized from sailboat off Martinique; five charged
French patrol vessel La Combattante intercepted a sailboat about 200 km southwest of Martinique on 29 June 2023 and seized 1,700 kg of cannabis plus 2 kg of cocaine. The five crew were handed to OFAST Caraibe on 1 July, charged with organised-gang drug and weapons offences and remanded in custody.
Arrested 5Charged 5Cannabis 1.7 t
100 g of cannabis found in a Ducos prison cell; two detainees disciplined
Prison officers searching a cell in living unit 20 of Ducos prison's men's remand building on 26 April 2023 found 100 grams of cannabis resin and herb and a smartphone in two detainees' belongings. Both are facing disciplinary proceedings and the prison referred the case to the Fort-de-France prosecutor, while the FO Justice union said the cannabis came in through visiting rooms.
Arrested 2Cannabis 100 g
20223 reports
20 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 kg
Germinal 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 kg
250 kg of cannabis seized at woman's home in Schoelcher
Gendarmes searched a woman's home in Schoelcher, Martinique, on 11 January 2022 and seized nearly 250 kg of cannabis herb in a record haul. A judicial investigation was opened and specialised interregional judges took over inquiries into a possibly international network.
Cannabis 250 kg
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