Two suspected Montpellier-Alès traffickers jailed over 7 kg of cannabis
Two men aged 31 and 44 were jailed in Alès on 9 October 2026 after a custody hearing over cannabis and cocaine trafficking between Montpellier and Alès. Police searches, ordered as part of the Gard drug squad's investigation, seized 7 kg of cannabis, 1 kg of cocaine and €26,000 in cash.
Two men aged 31 and 44 accused of running a drug trade between Montpellier and
Alès were jailed on Friday 9 October 2026 after appearing before the judge of
freedoms and detention (JLD), the judge who rules on pre-trial custody in
France.[1]Searches carried out during the operation turned up €26,000 in
cash, 7 kg of cannabis and 1 kg of cocaine, according to the Alès prosecutor’s
office.[1]
Officers searched a house in the arènes district of Alès as part of the
operation.[1]The two men were brought before the Alès courthouse on the
morning of Friday 9 October.[1]Substitute prosecutor Quentin Larroque handled
the case before the two men, aged 31 and 44, appeared before the judge of
freedoms and detention.[1]
Defence lawyers, including Me Florence Mendez for the suspect from Alès, sought
his release under judicial supervision at the hearing.[1]Prosecutors firmly
sought pre-trial detention for both suspects.[2]The two were arrested at the
start of that week, one in Montpellier and the other in Saint-Christol-lez-Alès,
a town in the Gard.[2]The searches were carried out by officers of the drug
squad of the Gard territorial crime division (DCT, formerly the departmental
criminal investigation unit).[2]
Photos and video
Midi Libre photo of the house in Alès's arènes district that police searched during the operation. Photo: Pixale via Midi LibrePhoto details
Midi Libre's text lists 7 kg of cannabis and separately 1.5 kg of 'herbe' (herb), which is also cannabis; the 7 kg total is the headline figure and the 1.5 kg may be part of it, so no combined weight is recorded.
The 9 October date is the Friday before the 10 October publication, as the article dates the hearing and jailing to Friday.
Only the jailing decision is known; the charges, the trial date and any possible sentence were not published.
The seized cash and cocaine are not attributed to any one person, and no cannabis valuation was published.
The Midi Libre page is subscriber-only; the arrest towns, the squad's name and the detention request come from a syndicated copy of the same article.
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