Agen man sentenced to two years after 4 kg cannabis discovery
A man arrested after a traffic stop in Agen was tried for drug trafficking after police found four kilograms of cannabis at his home. On 4 November, the court convicted him and sentenced him to two years, with half under electronically monitored home detention and half suspended with probation.
🇫🇷 Agen, Lot-et-Garonne · France
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Arrested
1
Charged
1
Cannabis
4 kg
Prison
2 years (half under electronically monitored home detention; half suspended with probation)
A 26-year-old man has been held in police custody at the Agen police station
since 31 October 2026 on suspicion of drug trafficking.[1][2]Officers had first
stopped him on that same day because he was driving without a licence.[1][2]During that initial roadside stop, officers found only a very small quantity of
drugs on him.[1][2]The case then changed scale when officers carried out a
search of his home in Agen.[1]
That home search recovered four kilograms of drugs, far more than the minimal
amount found during the roadside stop.[1]The seized drugs were a mix of
cannabis herb and cannabis resin.[1][2]
The man admitted the facts found by the investigators.[1][3]He was due to be
brought before the prosecutor on the morning of Wednesday 4 November.[1][2][3]Prosecutors could then send him for immediate trial before the Agen judicial
court on that same day.[1][2][3]The arrest, custody and home search all took place
in Agen, in the Lot-et-Garonne department.[1]
The Agen correctional court tried the 25-year-old man for drug trafficking on 4 November 2026.[4]The court convicted him and sentenced him to two years, with the first half arranged as electronically monitored home detention and the second half suspended with probation.[5]The court required him to work, receive treatment and complete 70 hours of community service.[5]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Cannabis
4 kg
Prison
2 years (half under electronically monitored home detention; half suspended with probation)
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor, Court
Cannabis
Hashish (4 kg); Herbal cannabis
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Home, Street or public place
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Probation, Community service
Sources
La Dépêche du Midiladepeche.frFRTrafic de stupéfiants à Agen : quatre kilos de cannabis découverts chez un individu initialement interpellé pour conduite sans permis
petitbleu.frpetitbleu.frFRTrafic de stupéfiants à Agen : quatre kilos de cannabis découverts chez un individu initialement interpellé pour conduite sans permis
Sud Ouestsudouest.frFRAgen : le conducteur sans permis avait plusieurs kilos de cannabis chez lui
PetitBleu.frpetitbleu.frFRLes policiers l'interpellent d'abord pour non-port de la ceinture de sécurité, puis découvrent quatre kilos de cannabis chez lui : "J'étais une petite main du trafic"
La Dépêche du Midiladepeche.frFRLes policiers l'interpellent d'abord pour non-port de la ceinture de sécurité, puis découvrent quatre kilos de cannabis chez lui : "J'étais une petite main du trafic"
Open questions the AI reported
No breakdown of the four kilograms between herb and resin was published.
The very small quantity found on the man during the roadside stop was not quantified.
The man's name was not published.
The court outcome was not yet known because the 4 November immediate trial was only a possibility.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in French.
Sud Ouest reports only "plusieurs kilos" without an exact weight or herb/resin breakdown, so the 4 kg figure is not corroborated by this source.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Sud Ouest: Officers had first stopped him on that same day because he was driving without a licence.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Sud Ouest: The case then changed scale when officers carried out a search of his home in Agen.
The 4 November account describes the four kilograms as cannabis resin, while the earlier account described a mix of herb and resin; the composition remains unresolved.
A 28-year-old driver tested positive for cannabis after rear-ending a car and injuring its driver at Percy-en-Normandie on 2 January 2026. The Coutances court sentenced him on 10 November 2026 to six months suspended imprisonment and cancelled his driving licence.
The criminal court in Troyes sentenced 47-year-old Ramzi Nefzaoui to 14 months in firm prison for drug trafficking and issued an arrest warrant. The case began when gendarmes stopped his Renault Laguna at Barberey-Saint-Sulpice in December 2025 and found cannabis resin, herb, cash and a scale.
The Fontainebleau criminal court sentenced a driver to five years in prison, including two years firm, over a fatal 2021 crash at Souppes-sur-Loing in which his 20-year-old passenger died. The court heard he had drunk alcohol and smoked cannabis and was driving at 135 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.
Anti-crime police in Passamaïnty, Mayotte, broke up a drug deal on 4 November 2026 and seized 3.334 kg of cannabis and 8,495 euros in cash from a suspected stash flat; three people were arrested. Two young men were tried in Mamoudzou on 9 November and sentenced to 30 months with 12 suspended and a 15-month suspended term.