Egypt’s Interior Ministry said its security services arrested a man who ran a social-media page promoting drugs for sale.[1][2][3] The ministry said in a statement on 31 October 2026 that the man was unemployed, had a criminal record and lived in the Third 10th of Ramadan police district of Sharqia Governorate.[1][2][4] A quantity of hashish, a private car and a mobile phone were found in his possession, and the ministry said the phone held evidence of his criminal activity.[1][2][3]

The ministry said the man confessed to creating and running the page to promote drug sales and to holding the seized drugs for trafficking, and that the security services had taken the necessary legal measures.[1][2][3] The security services detected a man running a social-media page that was used to advertise drugs for money.[5] The man was seized with the hashish, the car and the phone after investigations identified him as the page’s administrator.[6]