Ten held in a week of Thrace drug arrests; 683 g of cannabis seized in Drama
Greek police arrested ten people across Eastern Macedonia and Thrace between 5 and 11 November 2026 in targeted anti-drug operations. A Drama man was caught with 646 g of raw cannabis in his home and 37.3 g more in his car, and a Kavala grower was found with six metre-tall cannabis plants; nine case files on drug-law violations were opened.
Police in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace arrested ten people, six Greeks and four
foreign nationals, between 5 and 11 November 2026 in targeted anti-drug
operations, opening nine separate case files on drug-law violations.[1]
On the morning of 5 November 2026 in a settlement of Kavala, Kavala’s narcotics
squad arrested a Greek man who kept a small quantity of cannabis in a storage
room near his home.[1]With a police drug-detection dog, officers then found
and seized six cannabis plants about one metre tall, which he had cultivated in
a fenced area near the house.[1]
On the afternoon of 10 November 2026 at the Drama detention facility for
foreigners, officers arrested a foreign national after finding 25.98 grams of
the synthetic drug type called BONZAI in a parcel addressed to him.[1]
On 11 November 2026 in Drama, following information about drug dealing in the
area, officers arrested a Greek man and seized three nylon packages of raw
cannabis weighing 646 grams hidden in his home, six more packages weighing 37.3
grams found in his car, a precision scale and a sum of cash.[1]
In further checks over the same period, officers arrested one foreigner in the
Evros area, two Greeks in Komotini, one Greek in the Thessaloniki area and one
Greek in Kavala, seizing small quantities of raw cannabis, amphetamine and an
anaesthetic substance, one cannabis cigarette, one precision scale and one drug
tablet.[1]
The case files were submitted to the competent prosecutors, and the preliminary
inquiries were carried out by the police departments in Alexandroupoli, Drama,
Kavala and Komotini.[1]
The Drama seizure is confirmed by a second account: the same three packages of
646 grams of raw cannabis in the home and six packages of 37.3 grams in the car,
along with a precision scale and cash.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
10
Plants destroyed
6
Cannabis
683.3 g
Agencies
Greek Police; Kavala Central Port Captains office
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (683.3 g); Living plants (6 plants)
Sfikasfika.grELΔέκα συλλήψεις για ναρκωτικά σε Ανατολική Μακεδονία και Θράκη – Κατασχέθηκαν 646 γραμμάρια κάνναβης και 87 κάψουλες
Open questions the AI reported
The police account gives the 5–11 November period as a whole, with individual cases dated 5, 10 and 11 November; the report uses 8 November as the incident date, the middle of the operation, not a specific event day.
No weight was published for the small quantities of raw cannabis seized in the Kavala storage room or in the Evros, Komotini, Thessaloniki and Kavala checks, and no value estimate was given.
The 25.98 g of BONZAI, a synthetic cannabinoid, and the amphetamine, anaesthetic substance, one cannabis cigarette and one drug tablet are not counted in the cannabis figures.
No names, ages or charges beyond violations of the narcotics legislation were published, and no court outcome was reported.
A 22-year-old foreign national was arrested in Larissa after refusing a police stop and fleeing on his motorcycle with reckless driving; officers seized 2.6 g of raw cannabis that he dropped when apprehended, and a criminal file was opened against him.
Greek narcotics officers arrested a 21-year-old man in Attica on 11 November 2026 as he collected a parcel from the United States holding 2.26 kg of raw cannabis. A criminal case was filed against him for drug importation, possession and trafficking, and his mobile phone was seized.
Police in Thessaloniki arrested a 21-year-old man in Neapoli on 10 November 2026 after he fled a stop in a stolen car with forged plates and crashed into a police vehicle. Officers found a small quantity of cannabis and cocaine on him and opened a case file for theft, forgery, dangerous driving and drugs-law violations.
A man was arrested in Lamia on the evening of 10 November 2026 and police seized 105 grams of raw cannabis from the car he was driving. The arrest was made by officers of the OP.DI. prevention and mediation team of the Lamia crime investigation sub-directorate, and the man was due to be taken to the Lamia first-instance prosecutor.
