Seven arrested as Egypt police seize 64 kg of hashish in Alexandria and Sharqia
Egypt's drug-control police arrested seven people in four operations in Alexandria and Sharqia and seized 64 kg of hashish, the Interior Ministry said. A woman arrested in Zagazig was found with 5 kg of hashish, a pistol, ammunition and a car, and police valued the haul at about 6 million Egyptian pounds.
Egypt’s General Administration for Drug Control arrestedsuspects in a series of
operations against drug import and trafficking in Alexandria and Sharqia, the
Interior Ministry said.[1]In Alexandria, officers arrested one man in the Bab
Sharq police district with 12 kg of hashish.[1]Three more men, two of them
with criminal records, were arrested in the Second Amiriya district with 32 kg
of hashish.[1]
In Sharqia, two men, one with a criminal record, were arrested in the Minya
al-Qamh police district with 15 kg of hashish.[1]A woman was arrested in the
Zagazig police district with 5 kg of hashish, a pistol, a number of bullets and
a car.[2]Police valued the seized items at about 6 million Egyptian pounds.[1]
The General Administration for Drug Control is part of a sector for combating
drugs and unlicensed weapons and ammunition.[1]It said legal measures had
been taken against the suspects as part of the Interior Ministry’s campaign
against drug trafficking.[1]
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Customs officers at Hurghada International Airport stopped a foreign passenger arriving from a European country and found a plastic roll of green pieces and two bottles, one holding a green plant, all suspected to be marijuana. The Hurghada prosecution is investigating the seizure, and customs filed report No. 12 of 2026.
Customs officers at Hurghada International Airport found a black bag holding 55.5 grams of a green herb suspected to be marijuana in the luggage of a passenger arriving from Turkey. They filed customs seizure report No. 9 of 2026 and held the material; no arrest or charge has been reported.
Cairo postal customs stopped a US parcel of six hair- and hand-care containers weighing 6 kg that airport anti-drug officers said was cannabis oil worth about 12 million Egyptian pounds; prosecutors ordered a foreign national held for four days.
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