Saudi border guards foil 11 kg hashish smuggling in Asir and hold four
Saudi Border Guard land patrols in the Dhahran al-Janub sector of Asir region stopped an attempt to smuggle 11 kg of hashish along with 14,800 tablets under medical-trade controls and 2,950 amphetamine tablets. Another operation announced the same day led to the arrest of four violators of the border security law over 80 kg of khat in Asir.
🇸🇦 Dhahran al-Janub sector, Asir region, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Border Guard land patrols in the Dhahran al-Janub sector of Asir region
foiled an attempt to smuggle 11 kg of hashish.[1]The same interception
stopped 14,800 tablets under medical-trade controls and 2,950 amphetamine
tablets.[1]The Border Guard’s announcement was published on 6 November 2026.[1]
Sabq reported the same Dhahran al-Janub operation, giving the hashish as 11
kilograms, with 14,800 tablets under medical-trade controls and 2,950
amphetamine tablets.[2]In a second operation announced at the same time,
patrols in Asir region arrested four violators of the border security law
accused of smuggling 80 kg of khat plant, a stimulant leaf that is not cannabis.[2]
Sabq said initial legal procedures were completed against those detained and
they were handed with the seizures to the competent authority for the penalties
set by law.[2]The Border Guard asked citizens and residents to report
smuggling through its 994 line, the anti-narcotics directorate’s 995 line and
995@gdnc.gov.sa, 911 in Mecca, Medina, Riyadh and the Eastern Province, and 999
elsewhere, promising confidentiality.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
4
Cannabis
11 kg
Agency
General Directorate of Border Guard
Agency type
Border guard
Cannabis
Hashish (11 kg)
Activity
Smuggling
Setting
Land border
Region
Asir region
Sources
حرس الحدود السعودي (Saudi Border Guard)x.comARحرس_الحدود بمنطقة عسير يحبط تهريب (11) كيلوجرامًا من مادة الحشيش المخدر، و(14,800) قرص خاضع لتنظيم التداول الطبي، و(2,950) قرصًا من مادة الإمفيتامين المخدر
صحيفة سبقsabq.orgARحرس الحدود بعسير يُحبط تهريب حشيش وأقراص مخدرة وقات في ظهران الجنوب والربوعة
Open questions the AI reported
The submitted Sabq article has been removed and returns an error page, so the account rests on the Border Guard's own X statement and a live Sabq article on the same operations.
The Border Guard statement and Sabq give no date for the interception itself; 6 November 2026 is the date of the announcement.
No arrest is reported for the Dhahran al-Janub hashish, tablet and amphetamine interception, and it is not clear whether the four detainees held over khat are connected to it.
The four detainees' names, nationalities, ages, charges and court dates were not published.
The statements do not say how the hashish, the medical-trade tablets and the amphetamine were packed or where along the border they were intercepted.
Amphetamine and the 14,800 tablets under medical-trade controls are not cannabis and are excluded from the hashish weight.
No figure for the value of the 11 kg of hashish was published.
Saudi Border Guard land patrols in the Al-Ardah sector of Jazan region foiled an attempt to smuggle 46 kilograms of hashish, the directorate announced on 11 November 2026. It said initial legal procedures had been completed and the seized drugs handed over to the competent authority, without naming any suspect or giving an arrest figure.
Saudi Arabia's General Directorate of Border Guard said it foiled attempts to smuggle 76 kg of hashish and arrested those it called the smugglers, without saying how many. The same announcement reported 366,280 amphetamine tablets and 163,750 tablets under medical-trade controls, none of which is counted as cannabis.
Saudi Arabia's customs posts recorded 1,205 seizures of prohibited goods at land, sea and air crossings in one week, including 36 types of narcotics such as hashish, cocaine and Captagon. The Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority gave no cannabis quantity, arrest count or breakdown of the individual cases.
Saudi Border Guard land patrols in the Al-Raboah sector of Asir region arrested four Ethiopian nationals accused of smuggling 66 kilograms of hashish, the directorate announced on 1 November 2026. It said initial legal procedures were completed and the four were handed over with the drugs to the competent authority.
