On 3 November 2026 the tribunal judiciaire d’Argentan, the trial court in Argentan in Orne, convicted two people for attempting to deliver telephones and drugs by air into the Argentan detention centre.[1] Police had arrested the pair in the act in May.[1] On 13 May 2026 officers on patrol near the detention centre spotted a drone at about 3 a.m.[1] Officers caught its hanging string and arrested the two operators at the scene.[1]

Officers seized several packages wrapped in socks at the time of the arrest.[1] The packages held cigarettes, mobile phones and batteries.[1] The same packages also held 17 grams of crack and nearly 200 grams of cannabis.[1]

The attempt targeted the centre de détention d’Argentan, the prison at Argentan in Orne.[1] The two defendants had attempted the drone delivery to the Argentan detention centre at 3 a.m. on 13 May 2026.[1] The cannabis weighed nearly 200 grams, the cannabis component recorded here, while the crack amount is not counted as cannabis.[1]