18-year-old arrested in Alès with 500 g of cannabis
Alès police arrested an 18-year-old on Rue du Lozère in the Cévennes district, seizing about 500 g of cannabis alongside a similar amount of cocaine. Held in custody and then jailed, he was due to face immediate-appearance trial as a repeat offender.
🇫🇷 Rue du Lozère, quartier des Cévennes, Alès · France
Alès police arrested an 18-year-old on Friday evening in the city with nearly
500 g of cocaine and about the same amount of cannabis.[1]A patrol from the
Alès station spotted the youth acting suspiciously on a well-known dealing spot
on Rue du Lozère in the Cévennes district.[1]Lookouts shouted warnings, the
youth fled, and officers caught him after he entered an apartment-building hall.[1]Officers described him as just barely an adult when they checked him.[1]He was placed in custody at the police station and the custody was extended on
Saturday.[1]He was then jailed to await his trial scheduled for Monday at the
Alès courthouse.[1]The case was to be tried by immediate appearance and the
youth was treated as a repeat offender.[1]
Officers found a satchel containing about one hundred euros, nearly 500 g of
cocaine and about the same amount of cannabis.[1]The seizure was presented as
one kilo of drugs in total, of which about 0.5 kg was cannabis.[1]
Four days earlier, the prosecutor had denounced a trafficking system using young
adults as “chair à canon” to sell drugs, and this case was presented as
illustrating his point.[1]The youth had already been convicted for similar
acts in Montpellier and the Paris region.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
500 g
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (500 g)
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Home, Prison
Case stage
Sentenced
Sources
Midi Libremidilibre.frFRAlès : un jeune de 18 ans interpellé avec 1 kg de drogue dans le quartier des Cévennes, mais déjà condamné à Montpellier et en région parisienne
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no separate calendar date for the Friday-evening arrest; 30 October 2026 is inferred from the 1 November 2026 publication date.
The cannabis weight is approximate, described as nearly 500 g and the same amount as the cocaine, and is stored as 0.5 kg.
About 500 g of cocaine and about one hundred euros in the satchel are mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure and are excluded from cannabis figures.
The outcome of the Monday immediate-appearance trial was not in the accessible text, which is cut by a paywall.
Details of the prior convictions in Montpellier and the Paris region beyond the headline were not accessible.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in French.
A related link mentions another seizure in the same district on 2 November 2026, a separate event left out here.
Anti-crime squad officers arrested three men selling cocaine and cannabis resin from Marseille streets on Sunday 8 November 2026, two in the 11th arrondissement and one in the 15th. Two officers were injured overpowering the third man, and all three were taken into police custody.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Montpellier's Saint-Martin neighbourhood on 8 November 2026 after offering to sell cannabis to an undercover anti-crime (BAC) officer, and three officers were needed to detain him when he bit one of them. Officers found 21 g of cannabis, a small amount of cocaine and cash nearby, and he is due in court on 10 November.
Police in Le Mans stopped a 22-year-old riding an electric scooter at high speed on the pavement on 8 November 2026 after he refused to stop, then found a substance that appeared to be cannabis resin on him. He was held in custody and is to be summoned in June 2027 under a fixed-penalty court order providing for 70 hours of unpaid work.
Police in Draguignan arrested one adult and two minors after finding nearly 2.5 kg of cannabis resin disguised as Dubai chocolate bars in their car. One of the three, who was to deliver the drugs, was referred to the prosecutor and placed under judicial supervision pending trial.
