https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/mq/New reports of cannabis enforcement in Martinique.enhttps://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-joachim-henry-25-years-murder-martinique/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-joachim-henry-25-years-murder-martinique/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2026-11-06. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-aeroport-34kg-resin-sentence/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-aeroport-34kg-resin-sentence/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2026-10-14. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/sainte-luce-yole-65kg-sentence/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/sainte-luce-yole-65kg-sentence/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2026-10-02. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/dillon-fort-de-france-916g-resin-seizure/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/dillon-fort-de-france-916g-resin-seizure/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2026-09-08. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-ducos-saint-esprit-operation-60g/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-ducos-saint-esprit-operation-60g/Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTRaidMartinique, 2026-06-05. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-traffic-check-handgun-cannabis-resin/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-traffic-check-handgun-cannabis-resin/Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTArrestMartinique, 2026-06-04. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/riviere-salee-579-plants-home-grow/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/riviere-salee-579-plants-home-grow/Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2026-05-27. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/le-francois-cabanon-5-7kg-arrest-gign/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/le-francois-cabanon-5-7kg-arrest-gign/Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTArrestMartinique, 2026-04-09. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/terres-sainville-arsenal-3-485kg-cannabis-resin/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/terres-sainville-arsenal-3-485kg-cannabis-resin/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2026-03-23. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-dillon-postal-984g-resin/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-dillon-postal-984g-resin/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2026-03-02. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-customs-speedboat-5kg-cannabis-herb/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-customs-speedboat-5kg-cannabis-herb/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2026-01-25. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-650kg-resin-fridges-five-charged/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-650kg-resin-fridges-five-charged/Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2025-12-07. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/le-lamentin-as-discotheque-glock-cannabis-15-months/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/le-lamentin-as-discotheque-glock-cannabis-15-months/Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2025-12-01. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/le-marin-651-plants-fonds-gens-libres/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/le-marin-651-plants-fonds-gens-libres/Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTRaidMartinique, 2025-11-29. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ducos-prison-parloir-half-kilo-resin-sentences/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ducos-prison-parloir-half-kilo-resin-sentences/Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2025-11-23. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/terres-sainville-security-sweep-cannabis-revolver-2025/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/terres-sainville-security-sweep-cannabis-revolver-2025/Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2025-10-02. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-scotopelia-55kg-landing-2025/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-scotopelia-55kg-landing-2025/Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2025-09-04. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-atlantic-sailboat-940kg-resin/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-atlantic-sailboat-940kg-resin/Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2025-06-06. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/anses-darlet-yole-107kg-cannabis-martinique/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/anses-darlet-yole-107kg-cannabis-martinique/Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2025-03-28. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-port-500kg-resin-container/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-port-500kg-resin-container/Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2024-12-01. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/at-sea-off-martinique-18-mixed-bales-seized/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/at-sea-off-martinique-18-mixed-bales-seized/Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2024-09-25. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-aeroport-25kg-resin-40-month-sentence/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-aeroport-25kg-resin-40-month-sentence/Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2024-05-31. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-jirs-10-sentenced-up-to-11-years/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-jirs-10-sentenced-up-to-11-years/Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2024-03-28. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-pointe-des-grives-151kg-resin/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-pointe-des-grives-151kg-resin/Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2023-08-16. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-port-610kg-resin-2023/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-port-610kg-resin-2023/Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2023-08-10. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-southwest-sea-1700kg-cannabis-sailboat-five-charged/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-southwest-sea-1700kg-cannabis-sailboat-five-charged/Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2023-06-29. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ducos-prison-cell-100g-cannabis-2023/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/ducos-prison-cell-100g-cannabis-2023/Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2023-04-26. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-sainte-lucie-yole-20kg-2022/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-sainte-lucie-yole-20kg-2022/Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2022-06-03. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-germinal-561kg-cannabis-yole-2022/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-germinal-561kg-cannabis-yole-2022/Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2022-05-24. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/schoelcher-250kg-cannabis-home-seizure-2022/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/schoelcher-250kg-cannabis-home-seizure-2022/Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2022-01-11. 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.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-yole-55kg-cannabis-two-sentenced/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-yole-55kg-cannabis-two-sentenced/Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2021-10-29. French forces intercepted an unflagged yole south of Martinique on 26 October 2021, seizing 55 kg of cannabis, contraband tobacco and two loaded handguns from two Saint Lucian crew. Both men were sentenced in Fort-de-France on 29 October to three years in prison plus five-year weapons and territory bans.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-sea-seizures-1300kg-2018/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-sea-seizures-1300kg-2018/Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2018-07-15. French navy sailors and customs officers seized about 1.3 tonnes of cannabis from three go-fast boats off Martinique between 17 June and 15 July 2018. Five alleged traffickers were arrested, three of them aboard the last boat and two later by authorities in Antigua.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/le-marin-cap-macre-243kg-sentence/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/le-marin-cap-macre-243kg-sentence/Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2018-04-18. Gendarmes caught a Barbadian man with 13 bales of cannabis herb, 243 kg in all, on Cap Macré beach in Le Marin, Martinique, on 18 April 2018. The Fort-de-France court jailed him for four years and banned him from French territory for ten years.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/sainte-luce-12-cannabis-plants-seizure/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/sainte-luce-12-cannabis-plants-seizure/Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2017-08-08. Gendarmes and border police seized 70 grams of cannabis and 12 cannabis plants from a 61-year-old man in Sainte-Luce, Martinique, during a joint anti-delinquency operation. The man was released and summoned to face the Fort-de-France criminal court.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-700kg-cannabis-go-fast-crew-jailed/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-700kg-cannabis-go-fast-crew-jailed/Thu, 02 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMTSentenceMartinique, 2016-06-02. Four men from Saint Vincent were convicted in Martinique over a 700-kilogram cannabis shipment seized at sea on 19-20 April 2016. The frigate Germinal intercepted their go-fast 50 km off Martinique and recovered 48 bales.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-dillon-129-plants-home-seizure/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-dillon-129-plants-home-seizure/Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2016-04-26. Fort-de-France police searching the Dillon home of a 30-year-old man stopped on suspicion of armed extortion found a grow of 129 cannabis plants. He admitted growing for personal use and sharing with relatives without payment, and was freed pending a court summons on 27 June 2016.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/precheur-tapouille-133kg-2016/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/precheur-tapouille-133kg-2016/Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2016-04-06. French customs coastguards and OCRTIS police intercepted a Saint Vincent fishing boat about 25 km north-west of Le Prêcheur, Martinique, on 6 April 2016 and recovered about twenty bales of cannabis herb weighing 133 kg after the crew threw them overboard. The five passengers, nationals of Saint Vincent, Grenada and Dominica, were placed in police custody in Fort-de-France.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-port-404kg-resin-2015/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fort-de-france-port-404kg-resin-2015/Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2015-08-03. French customs officers and police found 404 kg of cannabis resin in the back of a utility van unloaded from a commercial ship at the port of Fort-de-France on 3 August 2015, and customs valued the haul at more than 2.4 million euros. Customs called it the largest cannabis resin seizure ever made in the French Antilles; the Fort-de-France prosecutor said nobody had been arrested at that stage.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-17-kg-cannabis-herb-seizure-2009/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/martinique-17-kg-cannabis-herb-seizure-2009/Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMTSeizureMartinique, 2009-01-09. Seventeen kilograms of cannabis herb were seized in Martinique in early January 2009, the France-Antilles group's Martinique and Guadeloupe editions reported on 9 January 2009. The reports gave no account of where on the island the seizure was made, which unit carried it out or whether anyone was arrested.