Police arrested eleven people in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace between 31 October and 4 November 2026 during targeted anti-drug operations.[1] Those arrested were ten Greeks and one foreign national, and police opened ten separate case files on drug-law violations.[1]

In Drama, drug-squad officers arrested two Greek men on the night of 4 November 2026 during a drug handover.[2] Officers found two packages of raw cannabis weighing 8.14 grams on the first of them, which police said he had bought from the second.[1] A search of a house and a storage room the second man used to hide drugs found three more packages of raw cannabis weighing 1 kg and 312.16 g.[1] That search also turned up a precision scale, a sum of cash and a mobile phone.[1]

In Drama on the afternoon of 2 November 2026, officers arrested a Greek man after finding two packages holding 65.3 grams of raw cannabis and a precision scale inside his car.[2] Officers at the Drama pre-departure detention centre for foreigners arrested a foreign national on the afternoon of 31 October 2026 after finding 4.82 grams of dried plant material of the synthetic drug type called BONZAI in a parcel addressed to him.[1] In checks in Evros, Komotini and Xanthi, officers arrested two Greek men in each area, six in all.[2] Those six checks yielded small amounts of raw cannabis, six cannabis cigarettes, two grinders and seven drug tablets, depending on the case.[1]

The case files went to the competent prosecutors, and police departments in Orestiada, Alexandroupoli, Drama, Xanthi and Komotini carried out the preliminary inquiries.[1] The operations were part of Greek Police targeted drives against the spread of drugs in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.[1]